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A SKETCH 



COMMERCE, INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES 



OF 



BUFFALO 



By WILLIAM THTJRSTONE, 

Secretary Buffalo Merchants' Exchange. 



BUFFALO: 
PUBLISHED BY THE BUFFALO MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE. 

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COMMERCE, INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES 



CITY OF BUFFALO. 



Buffalo for many years has been called the " Queen City of the Lakes," and well merits 
that appellation. It is a port of entry and the capital of Erie County, State of New York, 
at the eastern extremity of Lake Erie, at the head of Niagara River and at the mouth of 
Buffalo River, in lat. 42° 53' N., long. 78° 55' W., about 293 miles N. W. of New York City; 
— with a water front of three miles on the lake, and of the same extent on Niagara River. 
It has one of the finest harbors on the lakes, formed by the Buffalo River, a small stream, 
which is navigable for about two miles from its mouth. The entrance is protected by a 
breakwater, which is 1,500 feet long, upon the south side of the river; and there is also 
another on the north side, by which a capacious harbor is made. In 1809, the United States 
Government began the construction of an outside harbor, by building a breakwater designed 
to be 4,000 feet long, fronting the entrance of the Buffalo River, at the distance of about half 
a mile from shore; nearly two-thirds of the breakwater is completed. In addition, there are 
a large number of slips, docks and basins for the accommodation of shipping and canal boats. 
It is estimated that the total available water frontage of this port is fully eighteen miles in 
length. The Lighthouse is a large stone structure, and a Life-Saving Station has been estab- 
lished, with commodious buildings. 

The advantages of Buffalo, in a commercial point of view, are unite obvious. Its location 
at the foot of Lake Erie, whose waters unite with the Hudson River and the seaboard by the 
Erie Canal, and the centering of many important railroads in its midst, are a sufficient assur- 
ance of a continuance of its present business prosperity and future growth. 

The United States census returns for 1880 places the population of the city at 155,134, and 
of the county 219,881. The details of the city census are 76,904 males. 78,230 females; 103,866 
natives, 51,268 foreigners; 154,268 whites, 857 colored. 5 Chinese, 4 Indians. Rank in popula- 
tion, loth eity in the United States. The estimated population now exceeds 300,000. 

The earliest notice of the present site of Buffalo may be found in the travels of Baron La 
Houtan. He ascended the Niagara River into Lake Erie, on August 15, 1687, more than a 
hundred years prior to the first settlement of the city. He advised the French Government 
to build a fort here, and, in anticipation of its construction, named it " Port Suppose." on the 
map accompanying his travels. This fort was intended as a check against the neighboring 
Iroquois and Seneca Indians. In 1795, La Rochelbucault Lianconkt. a French nobleman, says 
that " at the port on Lake Erie (Buffalo) there was a small collection of four or five houses." 
On the map of the Holland Land Company's Purchase, drawn in L800, the present site of Buf- 
falo is designated as New Amsterdam-. The village, however, was not laid out and the 
survey Completed until 1804. The first lot sold contained half an acre, and brought $135. On 
April 2, 1818, the village was incorporated, and in the same year, on December :>0th. was 
burned, with the exception of two houses, by a force of British troops and their Indian allies, 
who crossed from Canada at Black Rock. 



Iii 183:3, Buffalo became an incorporated city, and is now divided into thirteen wards, with 
two aldermen to each ward. The principal officers are a Mayor, Comptroller, Clerk, Attor- 
ney, Treasurer, Park and Street Commissioners, Engineer, Superintendent of Education, 
Assessors, Overseer of the Poor, Commissioner of Public Buildings, Board of Water Com- 
missioners, Commissioners of City and County Hall, Board of Supervisors and Police Justice. 
For Police purposes, the city is divided into precincts. The Fire Department is under the 
management of a Superintendent and assistants. 

Previous to 1832 all the schools were known as district schools of the Town of Buffalo. 
The first school-house was erected in 1806, by gratuitous labor and material contributed by the 
early settlers, and was located at the corner of Cayuga (now Pearl) and Swan streets. The 
number of public schools in existence, including the Central, January 1, 1884, was 59; num- 
ber of teachers, 489 — 37 males, 452 females; average number of pupils registered, 26,752, and in 
attendance daily, 16,329; and the amount paid for this department by the city for the year end- 
ing December 31, 1883, was $359,596.97, including salaries, but not the expenses of repairing and 
refurnishing buildings. Total value of school property, $690,385. Schools are also maintained 
at five asylums, the Church Charity Foundation and the Central School. The pupils of the 
latter are graduates of other Schools. The German language was taught to 1,800 children in 
15 of the districts. The State Normal School and Normal School of Practice is also located 
here. There are also about fifty private academies, colleges and schools, including the Medical 
Department of the University of Buffalo, a college established for the study of medicine ; the 
Homeopathic Medical Society, the Buffalo Female Academy, the Buffalo Classical School,' the 
Heathcote School, St. Joseph's and many other Roman Catholic Schools, the Holy Angels 
Academy, the Canisius and St. Joseph's colleges. These are all well patronized and in good 
financial condition. It may be well to note that the Central School curriculum includes the 
languages. 

The commercial advantages of Buffalo are weH known, derived from its favorable relative 
position with the many points from which are drawn its receipts of flour, grain, coal, ore, lum- 
ber, oil, cattle, hogs, etc. , and the ready means for the distribution of these articles by lake, canal 
and railroads; added to which facilities are the benefits of cheap fuel, an excellent and 
abundant water supply, rapid elevating and transfer of grain, quick handling of coal, exten- 
sive storage facilities and dockage, with amide harbor accommodations. The healthy climate, 
handsome streets and driveways, magnificent park system, its public libraries, art gallery, 
museum, theatres, concert hall, hospitals, and benevolent institutions of all kinds, churches and 
fine public buildings, combine to render Buffalo a most desirable resort for the pleasure and 
health-seeker, and a home for the capitalist and the laboring classes. Its close proximity to 
Niagara Falls, added to the delightful and romantic; lake and river scenery, contributes 
greatly to its attractions. 

The City Engineer reports 114 miles of paved streets, also 250 miles opened and surveyed; 
125% miles of sewers constructed. The expenditures during 1883 were $342,129.25. The 
expenses of lighting the city with gas, etc., and the maintenance of lamps, etc., $85,412. The 
electric light was used July 13th, 1883, for the first time, in lighting the streets. The Poor De- 
partment cost the city $59,224.08. The Fire Department (paid, not volunteers) employed 16 
engines, 5 chemical engines, 16 hose carts, 6 hook-and-ladder trucks, 194 men and 87 horses, at 
an expense of $174,896.52; there are 1,429 hydrants. The strength of the Police Force, 283 
members. 

The bonded debt of the city, December 31, 1883, was $7,101,581.41, a decrease during the 
year of $16,283.14. The City Treasurer received from all sources $4,462,930.47. The value of 
real and personal estate $101,963,765, viz: real, $93,167,090, personal, $8,796,675; property 
exempt from taxation, $13,457,760. 

The custom receipts were $806,458.69, including duties on imports. The value of merchan- 
dise entered for consumption was $4,732,783: for exports to foreign ports, $463,551; for trans- 
portation to other districts, $392,494. 

The Buffalo Street Railroad comprises two main lines, double track, one 4% miles and the 
other about 3% miles in length. The Buffalo East Side Street Railroad comprises four single 
track lines, aggregating nearly 19 miles in length. Other lines are projected. Herdic Coaches 
are in use. 



Buffalo raiiks as the third city in the state, but in commercial importance she must be 
deemed second only to the metropolis. It is no wonder that her citizens are proud of her 
position and manifold advantages. With very few equals in the world as a grain port, its 
terminal facilities are very extensive and complete. Grain is received, transferred, stored 
and forwarded with greater dispatch than at any other port in this county. The river, for 
about a mile from its mouth, is lined with immense elevators and floaters, provided with all 
of the most improved appliances for handling cereals. The transfer of grain cargoes from 
vessels into storehouses and canal boats, prior to 1843, was done by manual labor, being raised 
from the hold in tubs and bags. In that year Mr. Joseph Dart erected the first elevator ever 
built for storing and transferring grain, with steam power, and with a storage capacity of 
55,000 bushels, and a transfer capacity of 15,000 bushels per day, near the mouth of Buffalo 
River. Now there are 22 elevators, 10 transfer elevators and 6 floaters, 38 in all, most of which 
are massive structures, costing in the aggregate about 86.noo.0OO. Their combined storage 
capacity reaches 9,215.000 bushels, while their daily transfer capacity is 3,102,000 bushels. That 
is to say, the elevators of Buffalo are capable of receiving from lake vessels and transferring 
to canal boats and cars, daily, 3,000,000 bushels of grain if called upon to do so. Much has 
been said and written against these Buffalo elevators, but the fact that they furnish such excel- 
lent facilities to carriers and shippers, insuring quick dispatch and freedom from costly delays, 
is an advantage that can be scarcely overestimated. These elevators are owned by private indi- 
viduals, excepting that the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad owns two, the Con- 
necting Terminal Railroad one, and the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad one. 
Several of these elevators have machinery attached whereby 60,000 to 70,000 bushels of wet or 
damaged grain can be dried every twenty-four hours. The grain trade has steadily increased 
for years. The season's receipts for 1880 were the largest on record, aggregating by lake and 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 175,000.000 bushels; last year, 101,122,705 bushels. 
The facilities for forwarding this vast amount of grain were as extensive as the terminal facil- 
ities. The capacity of the canal has never been fully tested, and the shipments of 1880, which 
were the largest ever reported, and reached 73,000,000 bushels, were forwarded with as little 
effort as the 30,000,000 bushels shipped in 1875. This fact is accounted for by the deepening 
and improvement of the canal so as to permit of the passage of boats with increased speed. 
The total of all articles carried from Buffalo in 1880 aggregated 3,286,928 tons, of the value of 
$59,539,048, and in 1883, 1,301,421 tons, valued at $35,866,304. The total freight received here 
was 553,846 tons in 1883. The canal and railway competition thus afforded always insures 
cheap transportation rates. The Central, Erie, Philadelphia and Lackawanna railroads give 
much attention to conveying grain, and each moves large quantities received by lake us well 
as its through shipments. Their tracks run directly into the elevators, so that there is no cart- 
ing and no handling outside of the elevator. It is no uncommon thing to see a large lake 
vessel beiug unloaded and two canal boats and two trains of freight cars being loaded at the 
same time. 

There are five large steamboat lines plying regularly between this port and the ports on 
Lakes Erie, Huron, Superior and Michigan. They are the Union, the Western Transit Com- 
pany, the Commercial, the Lehigh Valley and the Anchor lines. Their combined fleets 
number 56 first-class steamers, having a capacity ranging from 1,750 to 2,800 tons. With the 
completion of the Government improvements in the Detroit River, which are well advanced, 
the appearance of 3,000-ton vessels in Buffalo harbor will not be an unusual sight. In addition 
to the vessels of these lines, there are other propeller lines, a large fleet of steam barges with 
consorts, and sailing vessels, many of which are noble ships. With a heavy down movement 
of flour, grain, iron and copper ore, and lumber, and a large and steady up movement of coal, 
salt and merchandise, Buffalo bids fair to always occupy a front place among the great com- 
mercial cities of the continent. The immense works on the Tifft farm, nearly completed, will 
give nine miles of additional waterways and dockage. 

Manufacturing interests are attracting as much attention at present as the other branches 
of business mentioned. The admirable location for manufacturing and the necessity for 
diversified industries have induced Buffalo capitalists to invest large amounts of money in 
furnaces, rolling mills and factories of various kinds. With the lakes stretching to the west- 
ward and the canal to the eastward, together with the New York Central, the N. Y., L. E. 
iv Western, the Buffalo. New Fork it Philadelphia, the West Shore, and the Delaware, Lacka- 



wanna & Western Railroads leading East and the Lake Shore, the Canada Southern (branch 
of the Michigan Central), the Grand Trunk (now including Great Western), and the Buffalo 
& Southwestern Railroads running West (the Northern Central, Allegheny Valley and many 
narrow-gauge roads also connect at this point), facilities are furnished for shipping manufact- 
ured products to all parts of the country and the Dominion of Canada, at low rates of freight 
that are not surpassed by those of any other city in the country. The Lehigh Valley Railroad 
now in course of construction will be completed by the close of 1884. Buffalo also occupies 
a position between the coal and iron fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio and the iron mines of 
Lakes Superior and Champlain that is very advantageous. The various kinds of iron ore 
required to produce the best results, and coal and coke are laid down here at minimum rates. 

Manufacturing has made rapid strides of late years; 1,137 establishments were in operation 
in 1880. The stove works are very extensive. The iron and nail and the malleable iron 
works, the planing mills, the grape sugar and starch works, the chemical works and fertilizer 
works are among the largest in the country. To these must be added the car-wheel works, 
the marine and other engine works, iron bridge building, the manufactories of water-mains 
and gas pipes, chains, mills and mill-furnishing goods, threshing machines and agricultural 
implements, freight cars, scales, stamped hardware goods, refrigerators and bird cages ; 
tanneries ; oil refineries; boot and shoe and furniture factories; water-lime and cement works; 
potteries; soap makers; pork-packing houses; canned fruits and vegetables; confectioneries; 
edge-tool and hinge factories; children's and other carriages; organs and melodeons, and 
other industries too numerous to mention. Ship-building, both of iron and wood, is also 
carried on to a large extent. Leather belting and hose is another specialty. 

The flouring mills of the city and suburbs are quite extensive and the capital invested 
large. Their capacity may be estimated at 1,350,000 barrels annually, and the products have 
a widespread reputation for excellence. All the modern improvements have lately been added. 

The malting interest is a very important one ; sixty malt-houses were in operation last 
year, turning out over 3,000,000 bushels of malt. The breweries aggregate about 50. The 
distilleries and rectifying establishments are of large capacity. 

The estimated value of the leather manufactured here in 1883 was $6,250,000; and of boots 
and shoes, $1,500,000. Buffalo takes the lead in producing the best quality of hemlock sole 
leather in the United States. 

Heretofore the discrimination in freights on petroleum oil to Cleveland worked unfavorably 
for Buffalo; but now, with the pipe line extending from Rock City, Cattaraugus County, to 
Buffalo, capable of delivering 5,000 barrels per day, and our enlarged facilities for refining, 
we can compete with other points. The refining establishments have a capacity of about 
2,500 barrels daily. Lubricating, illuminating and other oils are manufactured to a large 
exteut and yield handsome profits. 

A very large amount of capital is invested in the printing, lithographing and engraving 
business. The work executed ranks with the finest and best in the country. The " show " 
printing establishment of The Courier Company, with its engraving department, in a fire- 
proof building six stories high, is the largest in the United States, and well worthy of a visit. 

The wholesale mercantile establishments embrace eveiy kind, and the business transacted 
is immense. The banking facilities are good; 11 banks, with an aggregate capital of $3,000,000; 
large surplus funds and other resources. The last official returns from the four savings banks 
show the deposits therein to aggregate $23, 433, 834. The four local fire insurance companies 
are prosperous and with a high reputation, having on January 1. 1884, $1,611,131.75 assets. 
The several private banks and the numerous saving and aid societies handle about $1,500,000 
annually. The Buffalo Loan, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, with a capital of $150,000, is 
doing a good and steadily-improving business. The amount of capital invested in manufact- 
ures is estimated at $35,000,000; the annual money value of the products, $55,000,000; the 
number of hands employed, 30,000. 

The English printed daily newspapers are the Courier, Commercial Advertiser, Express, 
Daily News, Telegraph and Times. There are several German dailies. Many weekly and 
monthly religious and secular journals are published. 

The Board of Trade is an important institution. This organization was constituted in 1844 
and incorporated in 1857. On the first of November, 1883, its handsome, fire-proof, seven 



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stories and basement building was completed, with all modern improvements, on a lot 132 by 
GO feet, on Seneca and Pearl streets, at a cost of §250,000. The Merchants' Exchange was 
incorporated April 14, 1882, and occupied its present quarters late last fall. The opening- 
ceremonies took place January 1, 1884. 

The East Buffalo live stock trade is of great importance. The yards for the accommoda- 
tion of stock cover about eighty acres of ground, are all paved and provided with the 
requisite sheds to protect stock from the weather, and chutes for loading and unloading cars. 
This business gives employment to a large number of men and boys. Noth withstanding the 
great competition of rival cities, Buffalo has held its own as a center in the trade. Its present 
magnitude and growth is shown on page 22. During 1883 the receipts were 603,755 cattle, 
2,379,580 hogs, 1,622,000 sheep and 17,040 horses, and stock slaughtered aggregated 856,690 head. 
The system of water supply and works is one of the best on this continent and thus far 
have cost $7,439,7S0; length of pipe laid 151 miles; revenue 1883, $420,000. The water is 
brought through a tunnel extending into the middle of Niagara River, thus insuring absolute 
purity; 23,500,000 gallons are pumped daily and distributed to consumers. The construction of 
this tunnel and its inlet pier was a work of great magnitude, requiring the best engineering 
skill. The Holly Water Works system is also in use. 

Another tunnel under the Niagara River, for railroad purposes, is often talked of and its 
construction is only a question of time, since the great International Bridge is inadequate for 
the accommodation of all the railroad traffic between Buffalo and Canada. This bridge was 
opened November 3, 1873, and was built by a joint Canadian and American company, at a 
cost of $1,500,000. It is nearly three-quarters of a mile in length, and the construction of the 
central portion was attended with great difficulty, owing to the rapid current of the river. 
The Cantilever bridge at Niagara Falls was completed December 10, 1883, and shortly 
afterwards opened for railroad trains. 

Among the institutions in which special interest is taken are the Young Men's Association, 
with its large circulating library and a cash yearly income of $20,000; the Society of Natural 
Sciences, which possesses a fine museum, free to the public ; the Grosvenor Library, another 
free institution ; the Historical Society, the archives of which are full of valuable material 
relating to the early history of the city and of Western New York ; the Fine Arts Academy, 
which owns many works of art; the Decorative Art Society, which is doing excellent work; 
the Law Library; the Young Men's Christian Association; the Mechanics' Institute; the 
German Young Men's Association; the Catholic Institute, etc. 

The Buffalo Driving Park Association has one of the best and fastest tracks in the country. 
It is the track on which Dexter's and Goldsmith Maid's best records were made, and on which 
Rarus trotted in 2.13)^ and Maud S in 2.10%. Buffalo also boasts of base ball clubs, bicycle 
clubs, yacht clubs, rowing clubs, archery clubs, and other popular organizations. 

The City and County Hall, built at a cost of $1,400,000 and dedicated in March, 1876, stands 
on a site bounded by Delaware, Franklin, Eagle and Church streets, and the surrounding 
grounds arc laid out and terraced in an artistic and ornamental manner. The building is of 
granite, with a tower containing an electrical illuminated clock, and is adorned with four 
representative statues. It is three stories high, not including a finished basement, and fur- 
nishes quarters for all the city and county officers as well as the courts. The Common Council 
Chamber is very handsome and commodious. The Jail stands at the junction of Delaware 
and Church streets, facing the City Hall. The two buildings are very similar in external 
appearance, and are connected by an underground passage. 

The State Insane Asylum is partially completed, and with the Erie County Penitentiary 
and the Almshouse are model institutions of their kind (the latter has an insane asylum 
attached). The General Hospital has a training school for nurses connected with it, and the 
hospitals, the homes for invalids, women and children, the deaf and dumb and orphan 
asylums and other benevolent associations are well managed and have comfortable and 
roomy buildings. Freemasonry, Odd Fellows and kindred societies are all flourishing. 

The Charity Organization, the Guild of the Good Samaritan and the Fitch Creche are 
admirable institutions, and were founded under the auspices of Rev. Stephen Humphreys 
Gurteen. They are doing excellent work. 



There are many fine edifices in tlie city, among the most prominent are the Custom House. 
now being enlarged, German Insurance, Marine Bank, Manufacturers and Traders' Bank and 
Young Men's Association Building; the Erie County, Western and Buffalo Savings Banks, 
and the Fine Arts Academy. The depots of the New York Central and Erie Railroads are 
commodious and ornamental. Several of the banks are located in very handsome edifices, 
and many merchants have imposing business blocks. The extensive buildings of the Courier, 
Commercial Advertiser and Eocpress newspapers indicate prosperity. 

The Academy of Music (theatre) is ably managed, and the front has been rebuilt of iron 
and brick, and the interior remodeled and beautified so as to increase the comfort of the 
audience. Wahle's handsome Opera House is on Court street. Two German theatres are open 
during the winter months. St. James Hall and the Adelphi Theatre are popular places of 
amusement. A magnificent Music Hall has lately been erected on Main street capable of 
holding 3,500 persons. 

Buffalo has long been celebrated for the elegance of its private residences, which can be 
found in nearly every part of the city, especially on Delaware, Main, Franklin, North, and 
other avenues on the west side. The grounds attached to these homes are kept with great 
care. The noble trees which line the walks of the main thoroughfares add greatly to the 
beauty of the city. An intercepting sewer is being built at a cost of about $1,000,000. 

The churches and places of worship number over one hundred, divided, according to denom- 
inations, as follows: Catholic, 21; Episcopal, 12; Baptist, 11; Methodist, 15; Presbyterian, 12; 
Jewish, 3; Universalist and Unitarian, 1 each; Lutheran, German Evangelical and all others, 
27. The most beautiful edifice in the city is St. Paul's Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal) ; it is 
built of brown stone, Gothic style of architecture, and has a tall, graceful spire containing a 
fine chime of bells. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral and the episcopal residence ad- 
joining are imposing piles of light-colored stone; the cathedral is noted for its chimes. St. 
Louis' and St. Mary's Roman Catholic churches, St. John's, Ascension, All Saints', St. Mary's 
and Christ Episcopal churches, Calvary and Westminster Presbyterian, Delaware Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal and the Universalist and Unitarian churches are all fine edifices, and 
the interiors are beautiful in decoration and furniture. There are several convents. 

Hotel accommodation is now ample and the managers strive in every way to please their 
patrons. Additional hotels are being built and others projected. 

The military organizations are the Sixty-fifth and Seventy-fourth Regiments National 
Guards, the Buffalo City Guards and the Buffalo City Guard Cadets. The Arsenal and Fre- 
mont Place Armory are state buildings of imposing character. A Soldiers and Sailors' Mon- 
ument is being erected in Lafayette Square, and will be completed by July 4, 1884. 

The United States Signal Service Meteorological Summary for 1883 was as follows: Mean 
temperature, 44.9°; highest, S3. 5° August 22; lowest, 0° belo zero January 22. Total rainfall 
or melted snow, 38.07' inches. Total number of days on which rain or snow fell, 170. Prevail- 
ing direction of wind, southwest; highest velocity of wind, 53 miles an hour, December 12, 
from west; average hourly velocity of wind, 11.28 miles. Number of clear days, 73; partly 
cloudy or fair days, 140; cloudy days, 152. The mean temperature was just 2° below normal, 
and the total precipitation was .77 in excess of average for ten years. The first frost of the 
season occurred September 9th, and first ice formed September 10th. First snow fell Novem- 
ber 1st. Buffalo Creek or River frozen, December 23d. 

The City of Buffalo has all the favorable conditions for health, longevity and mental and 
physical vigor that can be desired, unequaled by any city in the United States. The climate 
is salubrious, of a uniform temperature, without extremes of either heat or cold, the mercury 
scarcely ever rising above 84 degrees or falling below zero. The death-rate is low, only 10.4 
per 1,000. It has many special advantages as a summer resort, which of late years have 
been quite largely appreciated. Situated within twenty-two miles of Niagara Falls, the trip 
by rail on the several railroads is too short to be fatiguing, and the return trip in the evening 
is always pleasant, as the traveler gets the benefit of the fresh air from Niagara River during 
most of the distance. The drive to the Falls is a very fashionable one during the season. 
and when the grand idea of a boulevard connecting the city with the Village of Niagara Falls 
is realized, it will be still more so. On Grand Island there are several private club houses and 
places of resort. Everybody in Buffalo goes ''down the river" more or less during the 



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season, and several wealthy citizens own private steam yachts. One of the mosj attractive 
drives is that which leads to the "Front"— now a part, of the park system— a noble bluff 
above the bank of the Niagara, which commands an extensive view of the lake and river, 
and also of the harbor and portions of the city. The ruins of Fort Porter and the soldiers 1 
barracks are situated on this bluff. Buffalo is about seventy miles distant by vail from 
Chautauqua Lake, while a trip of less than thirty miles will take the traveler to Lewiston, 
Niagara City and the shores of Lake Ontario. These points are much visited during the 
season by excursionists. 

An act authorizing the selection and location of certain grounds for public parks and to 
provide for their maintenance and embellishment, was passed by the state legislature in 1869, 
and lands were selected and appraised at $305,157%85. Messrs. Olmsted & Vaux. of New York, 
were engaged to prepare plans; Mr. Geo. K. Radford was selected as engineer and Mr. William 
McMillan was secured as superintendent. The city has a park on a scale sufficient to meet 
the demands of a large and rapidly-growing population, and one that will compare favorably 
with any on the continent. The commissioners have always been mindful of the public 
interests, and have fully appreciated the responsibility of their position. There has been no 
lavish expenditure of money, and good judgment has characterized their work. Tin- total 
area of the lands used is 816 acres, embracing the Lake, Meadow, Parade, Front. Niagara 
square, Prospect place, North street circle, Bidwell place, Chapin place. Soldiers' place. Agassi/, 
place, the Bank, Humboldt, Bidwell, Chapin and Lincoln parkways, Fillmore, Porter and 
Richmond avenues. The parkways are from 1,695 to 11J097 feet in length, and the beds are 
of stone and gravel, rolled hard and smooth and graded. The avenues are each 300 feet wide. 
The Lake takes up forty-six and a half acres. With its miniature islands, its bays and coves, 
the boat-house, well stocked with row-boats, and a float for the band, refectories, etc., it is 
difficult to find a more romantic and picturesque spot. The popularity of the place is attested 
by the crowds of people to be seen there summer evenings. Adjacent to the main park where 
the lake is situated, is Forest Lawn Cemetery— solemn, grand and beautiful. The State Insane 
Asylum, an imposing brown stone and brick structure, is on the opposite side of the main 
park. About $3,000,000 have been expended on the parks, including the amount paid for 
the land. 



TRADE AND COMMERCE OF BUFFALO. 



LAKE AND RAILROAD COMMERCE. 



SUMMARY. 

Annexed are the comprehensive statis- 
tics of the trade and commerce of Buffalo, 
for 1SS3, with comparisons of previous 
years in flour, grain, lumber, coal, salt, live 
stock, vessel building, custom's receipts, etc. 

Elaborate tabular statements, although 
needed by statisticians and parties directly 
benefited, are not regarded with particular 
interest by the general reader, and for such 
the following brief synopsis is presented : 

The receipts of flour (reduced to wheat bush- 
els) and grain in 1883 bv lake at this port ag- 
gregate 76,079,930 bushels; by the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern railroad, 25,042,775 
bushels— grand total, 101,132,705 bushels. If 
the other railroads' cereal traffic passing over 
the International bridge and by other routes 
was reported a much larger exhibit would be 
shown. 

The growth of the grain trade of Buffalo is 
shown by the following figures : In 1836 the 
receipts by lake were 1,239,351 bushels; in 
1846, 13,366,168 bushels; in 1856, 25,753,967 
bushels; in 1S66, 53,388,087 bushels; in 1876, 
50,074,648 bushels; in 1877, 65,199,291 bushels; 
in 1878, 84,046,052 bushels; in 1879, 78,805,354 
bushels; and in 1880, 112,042,927 bushels. The 
aggregate receipts by lake of flour and grain 
from 1836 to 1883 inclusive were 1,833,282,345 
bushels. 

The receipts and shipments of the products 
of the forest this year were largely short of 
those of 18S2. A good trade was done however 
at prices which on the whole were satis- 
factory. The stocks in the yards at the close 
were well assorted and sufficient for all prob- 
able requirements until the opening of naviga- 
tion. 

The coal trade of our port makes a contin- 
ued rapid growth from year to year. The new 
railroads from the mines of Pennsylvania are 
all feeders to this branch of our commerce. 
The receipts this year are largely in excess of 
last : the total imports of all kinds aggre- 
gated 4,169,021 tons, against 3,031,831 tons 



in 1882 and 2,243,571 tons in 1881. Prices 
fluctuated but little during the year. Buffalo 
is now the great distributing centre for the 
lake regions and Canada. Manufactures 
flourish under the era of " cheap coal," and 
the different branches appear to be in a very 
satisfactory condition and many new enter- 
prises have been started and are in contempla- 
tion. 

The shipments of grain from the elevators 
by railroads connected therewith were.17,403,- 
379 bushels, showing a large increase from the 
movement of 1882 of 4,19S,186 bushels. 

The exports ty lake f jr the past season in- 
cluded 1,253,940 tons of coal, 212,969 barrels of 
cement and plaster, 92,120 barrels and 11,435 
tons of salt, and 57,660 tons of railroad 
iron. The tonnage of t ie miscellaneous 
west-bound freight was of good proportions, 
but no record is kept thereof for public use. 

Ice left this end of Lake Erie on Sunday, 
the 22d of April. The first arrival of the sea- 
son was the propeller barge D. Leuty, light, 
from Cleveland, at half-past 1 o'clock P. M. on 
Wednesday the 25th of April ; and on the same 
day at 5 o'clock P. M. the propeller John C . 
Grault, laden with wheat, from Toledo, aud at 
6 o'clock P. M. the propeller Russell Sage, 
also with wheat, from Toledo. The first 
clearance was the propeller barge D. Leuty, 
with barge Montgomery in tow, on Thursday 
P. M., the 26th of April, for Saginaw. On 
Friday, the 27th of April, the ice returned but 
did not obstruct navigation. The schooner J. 
E. Bailey, laden with wheat from Toledo was 
towed into this port on Saturday afternoon 
the 28th of April by the tug James Ash, the 
first sail vessel of the season. 

On Friday, April 27th, the propeller Cham- 
plain, from Chicago, passed the Straits and 
arrived at Mackinaw, and the steambarge 
S. J. Macy passed through the north passage 
at 11 A. M. Saturday, the 28th of April, being 
the first craft to report at that port as coming 
through this year. 

The Erie canal opened May 7, and closed 



10 



December 1 ; number of days of navigation 
206. The Welland canal (Canada) opened April 
5 and closed December 13. The Straits of 
Mackinaw opened April 28 ; one month later 
than in 1882. 

The year 1883 will be a noteworthy one among 
owners of vessels and navigators on the lakes. 
The destruction of property and loss of life 
were very large. 

The grain business on Central wharf (this 
famous locality was destroyed to provide ac- 
commodation for the Delaware & Lackawanna 
railroad company's docks and warehouses late 
in the fall) was far from satisfactory for rea- 
sons which cannot here be stated for want of 
space. The forwarding and vessel interests, 
however, were fairly remunerative. Elevator 
owners worked together in harmony and their 
season's business was largely in excess of 1882 
and quite remunerative. 

The ruling prices at the close of this year of 
various leading articles show many changes ; 
an advance in flour, winter wheat, beans, 
peas, seeds and apples, and a decline in Du- 
luth wheat, corn, oats, barley, oatmeal, pork, 
lard, dressed hogs, potatoes, lard, cheese, but- 
ter, eggs and leather. The other articles 
enumerated about the same. 

The capacity of the flouring mills of the city 
and suburbs may be estimated at 1,350,000 
barrels annually; all the modern improve- 
ments have been added. 

The malting interest is a very important 
one ; sixty malt houses were in operation dur- 
ing the jear turning out over 3,000,000 bushels 
of malt. The breweries, distilleries and recti- 
fying establishments are on a large scale. 

The amount of capital invested in manufac- 
tures of all kinds is estimated at $32,000,000 ; 
the annual value of the products $52,000,000 ; 
the number of hands employed 27,000. The 
banking capital is over $3,000,000 with re- 
sources equally large. 

The live stock trade statistics make an in- 
teresting exhibit : the yards at East Buffalo 
cover nearly sixty acres of ground and have 
all the facilities necessary for this immense 
and growing traffic. 

The regular special review presented annu- 
ally of the live stock trade is annexed. The 
figures show a slight decrease in the receipts 
of cattle as compared with last year, which 
fact is accounted for by the inroads made by 
the shipments of dressed beef and by the large 
number of through cattle that formerly passed 
east by way of this city but now go 
via Salamanca by the allotment of the 
percentage to the Erie's new western 



connection. There is a gratifying in 
crease in the receipts of both hogs and sheep, 
which were 414,230 head of the former and 
162,000 head of the latter. The local trade for 
the year has been the largest in the history of 
the yards. The continued growth of the oil 
and coal producing districts of Pennsylvania 
and the adjoining towns of New York state, 
which points depend for obtaining the bulk of 
their supply upon Buffalo, has brought many 
additional buyers to this market, while a 
number of additional eastern houses have repre 
sentatives here in addition to those long estab- 
lished. During some of the active weeks of 
the years as many as 400 cars of cattle, 350 of 
hogs and 175 of sheep have been disposed of, 
the transaction in cash aggregating nearly a 
million of dollars. Taking the year as a whole 
it has been fairly prosperous both for the feed- 
ers and shippers. Farmers have realized a good 
return for their feed, and shippers from the gen- 
eral steady state of the market have also done 
fairly on their investments. The opening 
of the New York, Chicago &St. Louis railroad 
(Nickel Plate) during the past year has shown 
it to be a most important feeder, traversing as 
it does a rich and growing stock country, 
while the new roads building will add' greatly 
to this already large and still growing branch 
of Buffalo's trade. Large additions to both 
the sheep and hog yards have been made dur- 
ing the year, and other facilities for the 
proP">pt handling of the large business done 
have been secured at both the New York Cen- 
tral and National yards. The Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western railroad has estab- 
lished fine yards some two miles east of the 
Central's, and within the past two months 
connections have been made with the Nickel 
Plate road, whereby all the through stock re- 
ceived over that line is delivered at the Lack- 
awanna yards direct, instead of being driven 
out, as formerly. 

Lake freights on grain from Chicago to Buf- 
falo fluctuated from two and a quarter cents on 
wheat and two cents on corn to five and a 
quarter and four and half cents per bushel re- 
spectively ; the average for the season was 
three and a half cents for wheat and three 
cents for corn. Coal was carried from this 
port to Chicago and Milwaukee at rates vary- 
ing from 50c to $1.50 per ton, free in and out, 
the average rate was about 70c. 

Railrood freights hence to New York ruled 
at nine cents for wheat and eight and a half 
cents for corn from January 1st to April 30th ; 
from that date to November 30th, seven and 
three quarters for wheat and seven and one 



11 



quarter for corn ; from Dec. 1st to the close 
nine cents and eight and a half cents respec- 
tively. 

Elevating (including five days storage) and 
transf ering rates steady all the season at three- 
quarters of a cent per bushel ; one- eighth of a 
cent paid by the vessel in addition. 

The amount of grain handled by the West- 
ern Elevating company was 64,436,804 bushels, 
(including flax seed) a large increase over 1883. 

The arrival and departure of vessels in the 
district of Buffalo Creek for the season of 18S3, 
7,099, aggregating 4,150,7S2 tonnage. The 
tonnage of vessels built and enrolled, 031.72 
tons ; of vessels built but not enrolled, 1,753.96 
tons, and 26 vessels changed hands by total 
transfer. The total gross tonnage of the port 
at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1883, was 22S vessels of 118,347.62 tonnage, ex- 
clusive of canal boats other tnan steam, of 
which the custom house does not keep a rec- 
ord. The number of vessels in winter quar- 
ters only 96. 

Loading grain into cars from elevator costs 
half a cent per bushel, and $1 per car for 
trimming less than five cars. Five cars and 
over half a cent per bushel and no charge for 
trimming. 

The receipts at the custom house during 1883 
were $854,462.62 against $1,038,245.20 in 1883, 
$812,916.92 in 1881, $768,106.48 in 1880, and 
$513,561.09 in 1779. This exhibit shows a very 
gratifying increase since Buffalo became a port 
of entry,— although there was a considerable 
falling off in the receipts of 1883. 

The canal exports of grain for the season 
were 42,37S,968 bushels, including flour 
reduced to its equivalent wheat ; these figures 
show the large increase of 12,893,576 bushels 
over 1882. The total tons of all articles car- 
ried eastward 1,361,421 of the value of $35,- 
866,394; the total tons arriving at Buffalo 
553,846 of the value of $20,547,078. The num- 
ber of canal boats cleared 6,081. 

Canal freights hence to New York fluctu- 
ated from six and a-half cents on wheat and 
six cents on corn to three and three- eighth 
cents and three and one-eighth cents respect- 
ively. The average this season was about 
four and three-quarters cents for wheat and 
four and one- quarter cents for corn. — Pine 
lumber per thousand feet ranged from $2. 30 to 
$3.50; and staves per ton from $1.50 to $2.30 to 
New York. Merchandise from New York to 
Buffalo varied from sixty cents to one dollar 
per gross ton. 

The receipts of flour (reduced to wheat bush- 
els) and grain at tidewater from all the canals 



this year were 40,407,000 bushels, as compared 
with 34,637,500 bushels in 1882. 

The export movement of flour and grain 
from New York for the year 1883 aggregated 
76,962,500 bushels (including flour reduced to 
its equivalent wheat) an increase as compared 
with 1882 of 5,755,500 bushels. 

The receipts of flour and grain at the west- 
ern lake ports of Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, 
Detroit, Cleveland and Duluth from January 
1 to December 31 aggregate 355,626,151 bush- 
els, an increase of 52,625,945 bushels as com- 
pared with the figures of 1882. The ship- 
ments for the same period from these places 
were 207,757,657 bushels, showing a decrease 
of 27,078,198 bushels. 



Comparative Imports by I-ako. 

The following table shows the imports of princi- 
pal articles into this port by lake for the years 1SS1, 
1882 and 1883: 

1881. 1882. 1833. 

Barley, bu 282,510 701,500 583,990 

Cedar posts, no . . 40,200 25,000 

Coal, tons 7,860 8,880 4,550 

Corn, bu 34,434.830 21,654,530 34,975,040 

Copper, pkgs.... 410 9,855 8,732 

Copper tons 16,540 8,915 12,942 

Copper, cak's and 

bars 1,961 13,831 20,240 

Fish, pkgs 4,750 7,818 10,140 

Flour, bbls 1,051,250 1,999,350 2,071,570 

Flaxseed, bu... 2,178.938 2,749,150 1,463,880 

Feed, sks 86,094 286,430 201,160 

Hoops, no 7,964,000 1 ,434,900 

Heading, bbls.... 8,516 3.780 

Iron ore, tons... 13,747 14,490 45,855 

Iron pig, tons... 10,820 12,547 9,480 

Lead, pigs 17,243 152,338 376,290 

Lard, pkgs 25,424 53,750 72,330 

Lumber, ft 240,802,100 248,196,000 233,433,000 

Lath, pes 2,863,000 5,251,050 14,508,000 

Oats, bu 3,565 737 ■ 1.650,170 3,226,900 

Oilcake, pkgs... 45,497 „ 123,420 112,370 

Pork, bbls 11,922 * 4,995 11,500 

Peas, bu 6,038 

Rye. bu 22,210 767,360 2,830,830 

Seeds, bags 23,221 35,820 98 810 

Staves 3.986,275 7,074,460 2,362,100 

Stavebolts, cords 10,065 20,783 14,820 

Shingles 25,249,060 44,90s, 750 37,302,000 

Shooks. no 964,000 1,510,000 

Tobacco, pkgs . . 9.356 13,240 

Ties, no 419,842 840,200 275,950 

Wheat, bu....... 18,495,320 26,050,030 23,105,420 

AGGREGATE RECEIPTS OF FLOUR AND GRAIN. 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Flour, bbls... .. 1,051,250 1,199,350 2,071,570 

Wheat, bu 18,495.320 26,050,030 24,105,420 

Corn, bu 34,434,830 21,664,530 31,975,010 

Oats, bu 3.565,737 1,650,170 3,226.900 

Barley, bu 282,510 701,500 583,890 

Rye, bu 22.210 767,360 2,830,830 

Peas, bu 6,038 

Total grain, bu. 56,806,645 50,833,590 65,722,080 

Flour to grain.bu 5,256,250 5,996,750 10,357,850 

Grand total, bu 62,002,805 56,830,340 76,079,930 



Grain Trade of Buffalo for Forty-eight Years. 

The following statement shows the grain trade of 
Buffalo for forty-eight years (the receipts by the 
Lake Shore Railroad not included): 



12 



Years. Flour, bbls. 

1836 139,178 

1837 126,805 

1838 277,620 

1839 894.125 

1840 597,142 

1841 730,040 

1842 734,408 

1843 917,517 

1844 915,030 

1845 740,750 

1840 1,374.529 

1847 1,857,000 

1848 1,249,000 

1849 1,207 435 

1850 1,103,039 

1851 1,258,224 

1852 1,299,213 

1853 975,557 

1851 739,750 

1855 93(5,761 

1856 1.126,018 

1857 845,953 

1858 1,536,109 

1859 1,420,333 

18G0 1,122,335 

1861 2,159,591 

1862 2,846,022 

1863 2,978,088 

1801 2,028,520 

1865 1,788,393 

I860 1,313,513 

1867 1,440,056 

1808 1,502.731 

1869 1,598.48; 

1870 1,470,391 

1871 1,278 077 

1872 762.502 

1873 1,259,205 

1874 1,093,585 

1875 1,810,402 

1876 807,210 

1877* 693,044 

1S78* 911,980 

1879* 897,105 

1880* 1,317,911 

1881* 1,051,250 

1882* 1,199,350 

1883* 2,071,570 

Oats, bti. 

1836 28,640 

1837 • 2,553 

1838 6,577 

1839 

1840 

1841 14.144 

1844 

1843 > 2,489 

1844 18,017 

1845 23,300 

1846 218,300 

1847 446,000 

IMS 560,000 

1849 362,384 

1850 357,580 

1851 1,140,430 

1852 2,590,231 

1853 1,580.655 

1854 4,401,739 

1855 2,693,222 

[856 1,733,382 

1857 1,214,700 

1858 2,275,231 

1859 391,502 

1860 1,209,594 

1861....' 1,797,905 

1662 2,624,982 

1863 7,322,187 

1864 11,682,687 

1865 8,491,799 

1866 10,227,472 

1861 10,933,166 

1868 11,492,472 

1869 5,459,847 

1870 6,840,983 



Wheat, bu. 

304,090 

450,350 

933,117 

1,117,262 

1,004.501 

1,035,000 

1.555,420 

1,827,241 

2,174,500 

1,770,740 

4.744,184 

6,489,1' 

4,520,117 

4,943,978 

3,681,317 

4,167,121 

5,549,778 

5,420,043 

5 510,782 

8,022,126 

8,465,671 

8.334,179 

10,671,550 

9,234,652 

18,502,615 

27,105,219 

30,435,831 

21,240,348 

17,677,549 

13,437,888 

10,479,694 

11.8:9.0X5 

12,555,215 

19,228,546 

20,556,722 

22,606,217 

14.304,942 

30;618,372 

29,778,572 

32,967,6S6 

19,324,612 

23.284,405 

35,419.136 

37,788,501 

40,510,229 

18,495,320 

26,050,030 

24,105,420 



Corn, bu. 

204,355 

94,490 

34,148 

;i,3« 

201,031 
454,530 

223,966 

137,978 

54,200 

1,455,258 

2,862,800 

2,298,000 

3,321,651 

2,593,378 

5,988,775 

5,136,746 

8,065,793 

10,108,983 

9,711,430 

9,033,277 

5,713,611 

6,621,688 

3,113,653 

11,386,217 

21,024,657 

24,388,627 

20,086,912 

10,478,681 

19,840,901 

27,894,798 

17,873,638 

16,804,067 

11,549,403 

9,410,128 

26,110,769 

34,643,187 

28,550,828 

24.974,518 

22,593,891 

20,939,853 

33,362,866 

35,133,853 

32,990,993 

62,214,417 

34,434,830 

21,664,530 

34,975,040 



Barley, bu. Rye. bu. 

4,876 1,500 

3,267 

909 



4,710 

l',617 

47J530 



3,600 

142,773 

497,913 

101,098 

313,757 

62,304 

46,327 

37,844 

308,371 

361,550 

262,158 

313,715 

423,121 

611,119 

465,057 

820,568 

1,606,384 

1,802,598 

637,124 

651,339 

1,821,154 



2,150 

1,268 

1,332 

456 

28,250 

70,787 
17,789 



10,652 

112,251 
107,152 
177,066 
299,591 
245,810 

48,536 
125,214 
124,693 

SO, S-J2 

337,764 
791,564 
422,309 
633,727 
877,676 
1.245,485 
1,010,693 
947,323 
126,093 
626,154 



Years. Oats, bu. Barley, bu. 

1871 9,006,409 1,946,928 

1872 6,050,045 3,088,925 

1873 5,972,346 1,232,507 

1874 5,396.781 1,154,948 

1875 8,494,124 916.889 

1876 2.397,257 2,015,081 

187^* 4,279,229 1*652,568 

1878* 5,122,972 1,375,184 

1879* 1,104 793 600,740 

1880* 649,350 335,925 

1881* 3,565.737 282,510 

1882* 1,650,170 701,500 

1883* 3,226,900 583,890 



GRAIN INCLUDING FLOUR AS GRAIN. 



Years 
1836.. 
1837.. 
1838.. 
1839.. 
1840.. 
1841.. 
1842.. 
1843.. 
1844.. 
1845.. 
1846 . 
1847.. 
184S.. 
1849.. 
1850.. 
1851.. 
1852.. 
1853.. 
1854.. 
1855.. 
1856.. 
1857.. 
1858.. 
1859.. 
I860.. 
1861.. 
1862. . 
1863.. 
1864 . 
1865.. 
1866.. 
1867.. 
1868.. 
1869.. 
1870.. 
1871 . . 
1872.. 
1873.. 
1874.. 
1875 . 
1876.. 
1877*. 
1878*. 
1879*. 
1880*. 
1881*. 
1882*. 
1883*. 



1886 

1846 . 
1856. 
1866.. 
1876. 



Grain, 

bu. 

543,461 

550,560 

974,751 

1,117,262 

1,075,888 

1,852.325 

2,015,928 

2,055.025 

2.335,568 

1,848.040 

6,491,522 

8,864,187 

7,396,012 

8,628.013 

6,618,004 

11,449,661 

13 392,937 

11,078,741 

18,553,455 

19,788,473 

20,123,66; 

15,348.930 

20,202,444 

14,429,069 

31,441,440 

50,662,646 

58,642,344 

49,845,065 

41,044,496 

42.473,223 

51,820,342 

43,499,78q 

42,436,201 

37,014,728 

39,261,141 

60,765,357 

58,447,822 

67,340,570 

61,562,627 

'.194,716 

46,038,598 

61,734,071 

79,176,152 

74,379,829 

105,453,372 

56,806,545 

50,883,590 

65,722,080 



Grain, including 
Hour, bu. 

1,239.351 
1,184,685 

2,587 8S7 
2,-302,851 

4,061.598 
5,592,525 
5.687, 168 

6,642,610 

0,910.718 
5,581,790 
13,366.167 
19,153 187 
14,641, HIS 
14,605, IS!) 
12,1159, 551 
17,740,784 
20,390,506 
15,956,525 
22,252,238 
24,472,277 
25 753,965 
19,578,690 
26,812,982 
21.530.722 
37.053,115 
61.460,601 
72,872,454 
64,735,510 
51.177,146 
51,415,188 
53,388,087 
50,700,060 
49,949,856 
45,007,163 
46,913,096 
67,155,742 
62,260,232 
73,036,595 
70, 03O,, -.52 
74,246,726 
50,074,648 
66,199.291 
81,046,052 
78,865,354 
112,042.1127 
62,062,895 
56,830,340 
76,079,930 



COMPARED BY DECADES. 

543. 161 
6,491,522 
20,123,667 
51.820,342 
46,088,598 



1836 to 1845— lOyears. 

1846 to 1855— 10 years 

1856 to 1865— 10 years 

1866 to 1875— lOyear- 

1876... 

1877*. 

1878*.. 

1879*.. 

1880*.. 

1881*.. 



14. 
113 
344 
526 
46 
61 
79 
74 
105 
56 



908 
005 
324 
775 
598 
071 
.152 
829 
372 
645 



13 



Years. 
1882*. . 
1883*.. 



Total, 18 years. 



Grain, Grain, including 
bu. Hour, bu. 

50.833,590 56 830,310 

65 722,080 76,079,980 



1,541,251,398 



1,838,282,345 



♦Canadian receipts through Custom-house not in- 
cluded in 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880. 1861. 1882 and 1883. 



Receipts by the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad. 

The following table shows the principal receipts 

at Buffalo by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 

Railroad for the year ending December 31, 1883, as 
compared with those of 1882 and 1881 : 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Flonr, bbls 889,800 690.390 626,455 

Wheat, bu 8,343,400 9,499,800 6,060,200' 

Corn,bu 16,731,200 13,274,900 11,731.500 

Oats, bu 5,409,000 3,407,800 3,301,800 

Barley, bu 235.800 236,900 296 000 

Ry e, bu 340.000 408,400 521 ,000 

Total grain.bu. 31,059,400 26.827,800 21,910,500 

Flour to wh't,bu. 4,449,000 3,451,950 3,132,275 

Grand total.bu. 35,503,400 30,279,750 25,042,775 

Beef,bbls and tcs 79,510 76,500 73,300 

Butter, lbs 20,100,000 18,2J0,000 8,753,000 

Bacon, lbs 31,950.000 25,280,000 12,622,000 

Broomcorn.bales 14,895 13,456 9,715 

Coal, tons 88,949 46,935 69,663 

Cattle, cars 30,799 26,037 22,483 

Cheese, boxes... 85,860 66,218 60,046 

Cotton, bales. .. 73,950 67,665 70,090 

Cornmeal, bbls . 242,000 178,635 186,140 

Eggs, pkgs 35,745 19,370 19,963 

Fish, pkgs 16,950 18,545 26,016 

Grindstones, no.. 23,970 23,140 15,960 

Hides, no 304,533 340,580 235,324 

Horses, cars 830 746 813 

Hops, bales 1,295 765 862 

Hogs, cars 14,369 14,298 15,959 

Hemp, bales 6.080 5,795 3,068 

Hams, tcs 108,500 89,250 65,250 

Iron, plates, no.. 23,920 26,346 22,460 

Iron, pig, tons .. . 7,720 7,472 9,120 

Leather, rolls.... 6,010 12,268 7,060 

Lard, lbs 28.800,000 27,780,000 13,240,000 

Lumber, cars 5,073 4,556 4,1C3 

Oil cake, pkgs... 128,370 107,540 80,700 

Oil, refined, bbls. 415,760 565,055 339,785 

Oil, crude, bbls . . 497,240 547,535 391,065 

Pork, bbls 201,140 125,500 101,750 

Pelts, bdls 12,950 7,200 5,365 

Seed, bags 51,180 47,790 36,850 

Stones, tons 7,624 6,9-9 4,337 

Staves, cars 921 701 627 

Sheep, cars 3,466 5,018 5,386 

Tobacco, pkgs... 29,980 27,900 33,050 

Tobacco, hhds... 5,224 3,534 2,961 
Tallow, bbls or 

pkgs 11,630 12,080 8,915 

Tanbark, cars... 677 493 180 

Whisky, bbls.... 70,900 67,400 65,100 

Wool, bales 26,090 32.990 28,005 

Of the above receipts for 1881,1882 and 1883 the 
follovviug were for this city: 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Flour, bbls 31.500 11,750 11,025 

Wheat, bu 50,400 136,500 127,000 

Corn, bu 1,150,100 1,783,800 1,667,500 

Oats, bu 82,100 67.200 283,900 

Barley, bu 6,400 ^9,000 96,000 

Rye, bu 400 7,500 16,000 

Hides, no 117,283 114,490 84,270 

Fish, pkgs 4,894 2,582 6,406 

Lumber, cars ... . 2,211 1,896 1,724 

Oil, refined, bbls. 2,880 4,080 

Coal, tons 66,549 30,405 44,808 



Flour and Grain Receipts by Lake and the 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 

Railroad. 

The following statement shows the receipts of 
flo r and grain by lake and the Lake Shore & Mich- 
igan Southern railroad for three years: 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Flour, bbls 1,941,050 1,889,740 2,698,025 

Wheat, bu 26,838,720 32,549,830 30,165,620 

Corn, bu 51,166,030 34,939.430 46.706,510 

Oats, bu 8,974,737 5,657,970 6,528,700 

Barley, bu 518,310 938,400 879,890 

Rye, bu 362,210 1,175,760 3,351.830 

Peas.bu 6,038 

Total bu 87,866,045 77,661,390 87,032,580 

Flour to wh't, bu. 9,705,250 9,448,700 13,490,125 

Grand total.bu 97,571,295 87,110,090 101,122,705 



Luin'jer Trade of Buffalo. 

The following table shows the receipts and ship- 
ments of lumber, etc., for three years: 

IMPORTS BY CANAL. 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Lumber, feet. . . 2,357,066 1,323,339 495,863 

Timber, cubic ft. .... 29,260 352,292 

Shingles, no 172,000 462,000 

Staves and head- 
ing, lbs ... 110,000 30,000 

EXPORTS BY CANAL. 

Lumber, feet.... 74,865,668 87,661,551 70,399,062 
Staves and head- 
ing, lbs 61,652,021 84,225,390 55,149,900 

Shingles, no 12.253,000 21,811,000 11,177,000 

Timber, cubic ft. 4,000 

IMPORTS BY LAKE. 

Heading, bbls... 8,516 3,780 9,500 

Hoops, no 7,961,000 l,43i,900 863,000 

Lumber, feet.... 240,802,160 248,196,000 233,433,000 

Lath, pieces 2,863,0C0 5.251,050 14,508,000 

Railr'd ties, no.. 419,812 840,200 275,920 

Staves, no 3,986,275 7,074,460 2,362,100 

Stave bolts,cords 10,065 20,783 14,820 

Shingles, no 25, '-.'49,000 44.908,750 37,302,000 

Shooks, no 964,000 1 ,510,000 

Cedir posts, no. 40,200 25,000 25,300 

OTHER IMPORTS BY RAILROADS AND TEAMS. 

Lumber, feet.... 97,000,000 103,000,000 125,000,000 
Railr'd ties, no.. .... 150,000 550,000 

AVERAGE PRICES. 

The prices at the yards during 1883 were about as 
follows, per 1,000 feet: 

Basswood. .$15 00@24 00 Walnut.. . .$40 00©100 00 

Pine 12 50@54 00 Maple 22 00® 36 08 

Ash 18 00®41 00 Hickory... 30 00<§ 50 00 

Whitewood 18 00©38 00 Lath. per M 2 00® 2 50 

Oak 25 00@45 00 Sh i n gl e s 

Cherry 35 0C®70 00 per M... 3 15(3} 4 50 

Chestnut... 25 00® 40 00 



Coal Trade of Buffalo. 

The anthracite and bituminous coal trade of this 
city is shown by the following figures: 

IMPORTS BY CANAL. 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Anthracite, tons 181,292 233,004 163,042 

Blossburg, tons 500 500 

EXPORTS BY CANAIi. 

Bituminous, tons 29,222 25,276 23,515 

IMPORTS BY LAKE. 

Bituminous, tons 7,860 8,880 1,550 

EXPORTS BY LAKE 

Antraoite, tons 795,210 995,500 1,218,940 

Blossburg, tons 30,000 32,000 (5,000 



14 



IMPORTS BY RAILROADS.* 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Anthracite, tons 1,065,000 1,700,000 l,91(i,000 

Bituminous, tons 923,919 1,024,907 2,014,929 

Blossburg, tons 05,000 65,000 70,000 

EXPORTS BY RAILROADS. 

No estimate to hand of the movement in detail. 

RECAPITULATION. 



1.240,292 1.933,014 2,079,042 

931,779 1,033,787 2,019,479 

05,500 65,0^0 70,500 



211,222 
795,240 

30,000 



25,276 

995,500 

32,000 



23,545 

1,218,940 

35,000 



Total imports Anthra- 
cite, tons 

Do, Bituminous, tons. 

Do, Blossburg, tons . . . 

Total exports, Bitumin- 
ous, tons 

Do, Anthracite, tons.. 

Do, Blossbu'g, tons... 

"Partly estimated. 



The retail prices of anthracite per 2,000 pounds, 
delivered in the city limits, during the year were as 
follows: 

Grate. 

January 1 $5 60 

April 23 5 25 

July 1 5 50 

September 1... 5 50 
December 31.. 5 50 

The range of prices during 1883 for bituminous, 
delivered to manufactories, gas works, propeller 
lines, etc., was from $2 50 to $4 25 per ton, accord- 
ing to description. The price at retail varied from 
$5 00 to $6 00, delivered, per ton, accordlig to qual- 
ity, for family use. 

About 285.000 tons of anthracite were consumed, 
mostly by families, and 1 J,000 tons of bituminous 
coal were consumed by families in this city during 
1883. 

Comparative Prices of Leading Articles. 

Tlif following statement shows the approximate 
ruling rates of the various articles enumerated at 
Buffalo December 31, 1883, and the corresponding 
periods in 1882 and 1881 : 









Bloss- 


Egg. 


Stove. 


Nut. 


burg. 


$5 75 


$6 00 


$0 20 


$4 25 


5 35 


5 60 


5 60 


4 25 


5 66 


5 80 


5 95 


4 25 


5 50 


5 95 


t; 10 


4 25 


5 70 


5 95 


6 10 





1881. 



1882. 



$6 25a 75 
5 50a 5 75 
5 75a 00 i 
r00a son 

5 25a 5 75 

6 25a 6 75 
o 50a 7 Oi) 
5 50a (1 00 



6 (Ida (', 50 

7 50a 8 25 

1 0i ia 1 50 



Flour, bbl— 
Citygr. sp. No. l..$7 00a 7 75 

i 'ily gr. amber 7 00a 7 75 

« 'ily gr. white 7 25a 7 75 

( 'iiy g. new process s 00a 8 75 

i Hear I 'ninth spring 

Straight do 

1>«. Minn bakers. . 

Clear Minnesota. . .... 

Western spring... 7 00a 7 75 
Western bakers'... 7 25a s on 
Western amber. ... 7 50a 8 00 

Western white 7 50a 8 00 

Western newprocs s 25a 9 25 
Rye 6 25a 6 50 

Wheat, bush 

No.l h'd Duluth.sp 1 51 1 17 

Red and amber.... 143 1 02a 1 05 

\\ bite l 42 l (>2a 1 05 

Corn, bush- 
No. 2 western 67)4>a 68 

( )ats, lai, western. . 19a 50 

l,'\ e, Ini, do 1 05 

Barley, bush- 
West 'n and Canada 95a 1 10 

state 85a 1 03 

Barley malt, bu.. .. i 10a l 25 
I'eas, bu (free of 
.lut vi, Canada.... 100 90a 95 

Beans, bu 2 75a 3 25 2 50a 3 00 

Seed, Clover, bu .. . 5 50a 5 76 5 00a 5 50 

S I, timothy, bu 2 J5a 3 00 2 80a 2 75 

Buckwheat, cwt. . . 4 00a 4 50 3 00a 3 50 



1883. 



6 00a 6 25 

7 00a 7 50 

6 25 
50a 6 75 
i; 25a 6 75 
5 50a 6 00 



6 00a (i 25 

; ooa ; 5o 
:; 75a I 25 

1 15 
1 08a 1 09 
l 08a 1 09 



61a 62 60 

40a 42 34a 36 

O.'ia 65 64 

62a 85 65a 85 

70a 85 65a 78 

90a 9") 75a 90 



100 

2 75a 3 26 

6 50a 75 
1 70a 1 75 

3 75a I 00 



Millfeed, ton— 1881. 1882. 1883. 

Coarse 16 00al7 00 16 00al7 00 16 00al7 00 

Fine .17 00H8 00 17 00al8 00 16 00al7 00 

Finished 21 00a22 00 19 00a20 00 20 00a21 00 

Cornmeal, 100 lb. . . 1 40a 1 60 1 25a 1 35 1 20a 1 30 

Oatmeal, bbl 7 50a 8 00 7 00a 7 50 6 00a 6 50 

Mess pork, bbl— 

Heavy 17 50 18 OOalS 50 15 50 

Short cut 17 50 18 00al8 50 15 50 

Lard, lb llj^a 12J4 ll}4a 12 9J^a 10 

Dressed hogs, cwt.. 7 25a 7 50 7 75a 8 25 7 00a 7 56 

High .vines, gal.... 119 119 118 

Potatoes, bu 90a 1 00 75a 85 38a 50 

Butter, lb 26a 33 25a 33 16a 27 

Cheese, dairy, lb... 11a 12 Ha 12 9a 10}4 

Do., factory, lb.... llj^a 13 12,4a 13 11a 11}Z 

Hops, lb 20a 26 1 00a 1 05 20a 26 

Eggs, doz 28a 30 30a 32 28a 30 

Cranberries, bbl .... 11 00al2 00 15 00 13 50 

Apples, dried, lb.. . 4a 6 6a 7 5^a 6 

Do., green, bbl. ... 2 25a 3 50 2 50a 4 00 3 00a 4 00 

Oranges, case 5 00a 6 00 4 00a 6 00 4 00a 4 50 

Lemons, box 2 25a 4 25 3 00a 4 50 3 50a 5 50 

Salt, coarse, bbl... 110 1 13a 1 20 125 

Salt, fine, bbl 1 05a 1 10 88a 1 20 92 

Coal, Anthracite, retail price, delivered, ton- 
Grate 5 35 5 60 5 50 

Egg 5 60 5 75 5 70 

Chestnut 5 90 6 20 6 10 

Stove 5 90 6 00 5 95 

Coal, bituminous.. 5 00a 6 00 5 00a 6 00 5 00a 6 00 

Hides, green, lb... 9^all4 8J^a 9^ 8a 10 

Do., cured 15a 18 15a 19 15a 19 

Best sl'ght'd sole.. 29a 31 29a 31 27a 29 

No. 2 do 27a 29 27a 29 26a 27 

Cement, bbl 1 20 1 20 1 20 

Refined Petroleum, gal— 

112al2)° leg. test... 8a 9 11 11 

Pease's Prem. oil.. 30a 35 30a 35 30a 35 

Pease's Headlight.. 20a 25 25 25 

Lard Oil- 
Extra winter, gal . . 95 95 75 

Do., No. 1 do 90 90 70 

Linseed, raw do. . . • 65 58 5S 

Do., boiled, do 68 60 60 

W. V. oil, black, 

gallon 23 23 25 

Do., gal., in bbl .... 25 25 25 

Sperm oil, gal 115 1 30 1 50 

Fish, half bbl— 

White 7 00 6 50 7 00 

Trout 6 00 5 75 5 00 

Siscoes 4 50 4 75 3 75 

Codfish, George's 

Bank, cwt 5 50 5 50a 6 00 5 50a 6 00 

Halibut, cwt 1100 1100 16 00 

Mackerel, kit 1 10a 2 80 1 20a 2 10 1 25a 2 00 

Do,halfbbl 850al350 675all00 760all00 

Sterling Exchange 481a 485 4814a485J4 481J^a485X> 



Exports from Elevators by Railroads. 

The following statement shows the exports of 
grain from the elevators of this city having connec- 
tions with the railroads for the several months of 
1883, and comparisons with preceding years: 



Wheat, 

1888. bu. 

January .. 1S9.550 
February. 97,355 

March.... 170,591 

April 109,036 

May 415,088 

June 275,647 

July .... 179.153 

august... 397,893 

Septem'r. 329,733 

October. 521.111 

November 589,008 

December 579,252 



Corn, 

bu. 

15.023 

2,000 

15.321 
1,702,079 

1,018,988 

1.209.05; 
2,102.131 

1,913,640 
2,481,109 
1,535,628 

1,183,221 



Oats, Barley, Rye, 



bu 
1,600 

l.roo 

i. in hi 

800 

1,273 

32,797 

52, , 82 

8, 197 

25.300 

1,600 

2,600 



bu. 

9, HIS 

39,656 

11,000 

:,i ii i 
1,764 

15JH8 



635 

26,612 
21.937 



bu. 



Total 1883, 3,854,320 13,204, r 03 132,249 126,730 85,577 



15 



Wheat, Corn, Oats, Barley, Rye, 
1883. bu. bu. bu. bu. bu. 

Total, '82.4,384,050 7,816,201 852,754 124,223 27,365 
Total, '81.4,852,973 15,205,794 1,588,068 57,521 7,000 
Total, '80.9,677,469 20,319,376 469,689 32,960 259,433 
Total, '79.8,575,129 7,369,007 183:339 94,230 81,831 
Total, '78.9,173,439 9,300,650 254,057 185,212 223,310 
Total, '77.9,323,348 3,851,034 620.009 348,082 90,332 
Total, '70.5,984,722 6,581,989 715,649 112,741 278,291 
Total, '75.6,198,393 6,436,717 1,091,327 60,437 16,786 
Total, '74.4,658,080 5,209,202 1,318,097 191.277 10,318 

Grand total, bushels, 1874 11,386,974 

1875 14,800,660 

" 1876 13,672,732 

" " 1877 14,235,805 

1878 19,136,668 

1879 16,308,526 

1880 30,758,927 

1881 21.808,356 

1882 13,205,193 

1833 17,403,379 

Increase, 1883 over 1882, bu 4,198,186 



Elevating and Storage Rates. 

The following shows the current rates as pub- 
lished by the Western Elevating company, during 
the days specified in 1883. 

January 1 to April 28.— On the 20th day of No- 
vember, 1882, the following card was issued: "Ele- 
vating, including five days' storage, seven-eighths 
of one cent per bushel. Storage, each succeeding 
ten days or parts thereof, one quarter of one cent 
per bushel . The vessel pays, in addition to the 
above, one eighth cent per bushel. On all grain in 
store at that date or after the charge for winter 
storage will be one-quarter of one cent per bushel 
for each ten days or parts thereof until such charge 
(accumulated after November 20, 1882) shall amount 
to two cents per bushel; then the grain shall be free 
of storage until ten days after the opening of canal 
navigation in 1883 . 

April 29 to November 20.— Elevating, including 
five days' storage, three-quarters of one cent per 
bushel; storage each succeeding ten days or parts 
thereof, one-quarter of one cent per bushel; the 
vessel pays in addition to the above one-eighth of 
one cent per bushel. 

November 21 to close of Navigation.— Elevat- 
ing, Including five days' storage, three quarters of 
one cent per bushel; storage each succeeding ten 
days or parts thereof, one-quarter of one cent per 
bushel; the vessel pays ia addition to the above one- 
eighth of one cent per bushel. On all grain in store 
November 20 or ;»f ter the charge for winter storage 
will be one-quarter of one cent per bushel for each 
ten days or parts thereof until such charge (accu- 
mulated after November 20, 1883) shall amount to 
two cents per bushel; then the grain shall be free 
of storage until five days after the opening of canal 
navigation in 1884. 

Note.— The amount of grain handled by the 
Western Elevating company was 64,436,804 bushels, 
against 50,934,922 bushels in 1882, about 49,000,000 
bushels in 1881, and 99,000,000 bushels in 1880, a 
large increase in 1883 over 1882. 



Loading Railroad Grain from Elevators. 

Loading grain into cars from elevator costs J^c 
per bushel and $1 00 per car for trimming for less 
than 5 cars. Five cars and over, J>£e per bushel and 
no charge for trimming. 



Lake Exports. 

The following statement, collated from the clear- 
ances issued during the season of navigation at the 
custom-house of this port, shows the exports of the 
articles named during the season of navigation in 
1881, 1882 and 1883 westward by lake: 



Coal, tons 

Cement and plas- 
ter, bbls 

Salt, bbls 

Sa t, tons 

Railroad iron,tns 
Railroad iron.brs 



1881. 
825,240 

170.410 
109,810 
11,955 
50,237 
23,100 



1882. 
1,027,500 

223,810 

111,600 

12,810 



1883. 
1,253,940 

212 960 
92,120 
1 1 .435 



April 28.. 


. 4 


®A 


May 5 . . 


. 3% 


3* 


May 12.. 


. 3 


2*j 




. 2M 


2 


May 26.. 


. Wx 


2 


June 2 . . 


. ay* 


a 




. m 


2VS 


June 16. . 


■ 3^2 


2Vj 


June 23 . . 


. m 


2 


June c0. . 


■ ^4 


2Vfj 


July 7 


. m 


ny 4 


July 14.. 


. 2!4 


2 


July 21 


■ 2W 


2 


July 28.2^@3 2% 


n<m 


Aug. 4.3 


©314 2%@,S 



Aheat 


, Corn, 


bu. 


bu. 


m 


3^ 


m 


3ki 


4* 


4M 


4V\ 


4 


5 


4« 


5 


4^3 


m 


4 


4 


m 


4^> 


4 


3H 


m 


m 


3 


m 


m 


4 


3*j 


4 


■m 


3ki 


3 


4ki 


4 


4k 


4 



Lake Freights from Chicago to Buffalo on 
Wheat and Corn. 

The following statement shows the ruling rates of 
lake freights on wheat and corn from Chicago to 
Buffalo on the dates specified in 1883 : 

Wheat, Corn, 
1833. bu. bu. 1883. 

April 14 . . .4@4!4 -i}&Ca<A}& Aug. 11 . 
April 21...4@4i4 3%@4 Aug. 18. 

Aug. 25 . 

Sept. 1. 

Sept. 8. 

SepM5. 

Sept. 2a. 

Sept. 29. 

Oct. 6. 

Oct. 13. 

Oct. 20. 

Oct. 27 

Nov. 3 . 

Nov. 10. 

Nov. 17 

Nov. 24. 

Nov. 30. 

Note— Rates from Milwaukee about the same as 
from Chicago. 

The last shipment of corn in November was at 5c 
per bushel. 

AVERAGE LAKE FREIGHTS. 

The following statement shows the average rates 
of lake freights on wheat and corn between Chicago 
and Buffalo during each month in the past ten 
years; the highest rate on wheat in each year and 
the average rate on wneat in each year: 

May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. 

cts. cts. cts. cts. cts. cts cts. 

1ii7/l (Wheat.... 4.5 4.2 3.3 3.1 3.5 4.1 4.6 

18/4 1 Corn 4.0 3 9 3.0 2.1 3.2 3.8 4.2 

Highest rate wheat, 1874, 6c; average for the sea- 
son, 3.9c. 

187*3 Wheat.... 3.9 3 2.8 2.5 2.4 3.7 5.9 

18 '°|Corn 3.6 2.6 2.6 2.2 2.2 3.4 5.5 

Highest rate wheat, 1875, 6J£c; season, 3 5c. 

la „ r j Wheat ...3.0 2.5 1.9 2.2 2 1.1 3.7 

18,0 'I Corn 2.7 2.3 1.7 1.8 2.3 1.0 3,3 

-Highest rate wheat, 1876, 5c; season, 2.9c. 

.0^1 Wheat.... 3.5 2.4 2 6 4.0 4.0 1.9 1.5 

18,1 "(Corn 2.9 1.9 2.2 3.6 3.4 4.4 3.9 

Highest rate wheat, 1877, 6c: season, 3.7c. 

, N (Wheat... 2.5 *.l 1.7 3.2 4.4 3.6 4.5 

18(8 (Corn 2.2 1.8 1.5 3.0 4.1 3.3 4.1 

Highest rate wheat, 1878, 7c; season, 3.1c. 

1s „ Q j Wheat.... 3.1 .2.1 2.5 4.9 5.3 7.7 7.0 

la,J I Corn 2.8 1.8 2.3 4.5 4.8 7.1 6.5 

Highest rate wheat, 1879, 8.5c; season, 4.7c. 

iscnj Wheat.... 5.0 7.1 5.8 5.6 4.4 6.8 7.1 

18bU !Corn 4.3 6.6 4.3 5.1 3.9 0.3 0.5 

Highest rate wheat, 1880, S^c; season, 5.7c. 

iaai J Wheat... 4.7 4.1 2.6 3.1 3.2 2.5 2.1 

1881 I Corn 4.2 3.6 2.2 2.8 2.9 2.2 1.9 

Highest rate wheat, 1881, 5j^c; season, 3.2c. 

toco I Wheat.... 2.2 2.6 1.9 2.3 2.4 2.9 3.0 

188 ~"|Corn 2.0 2.1 1.7 2.1 2.2 2.0 2.8 

Highest rate wheat, 1882, 3}<jc; season. 2.5c. 

.000 I Wheat.... 3.0 2.5 2.5 3.8 4.6 3.8 4.0 

1BBd 10orn 2.7 2.2 2.2 3.5 4.3 3.5 3.7 

Highest rate wheat, 1883, 5J4c; season, 3.5c. 



16 



Lake Freights from Buffalo to Chicago and 
Milwaukee on Coal. 

The following statement shows the ruling rates on 
coal per ton, from Buffalo to Chicago and Milwau- 
kee during the season of 1883 on the dates specified ■ 



Coal, ton. 



1883 
April 14 
April 21 
April 23 $0 GO 



May 5 . 
May 12. 
May 19. 
May 26. 
.June 2. 
June 9. 
June l * ; 
June 23. 
June 30 
July 7. 
July 14. 
July 21. 
July 28. 
Aug. 4. 



1883. 

Aug. 11. 

Aug. 18.. 

Aug. 25. 
50 Sept. 1. 
50 Sept. 8. 
75 Sept. 15. 
75 Sept. 22.. 
75 Sept. 29., 
~ Oct. 6. 

Oct. 13 . 

Oct. 20.. 

Oct. 27., 

Nov. 3.. 

Nov. 10 . 

Nov. 17. 

Nov. 24. . 

Nov. 30.. 



Coal. ton. 

... $0 00 
70 
70 
70 
60 
fiO 
00 
00 
60 



1 25 
1 25 
1 00 
1 00 
1 25 
1 50 
1 50 



Kailroad Freights from Buffalo to New York, 

Baltimore and Philadelphia on Wheat, 

Corn and Oats. 

The following statement shows the nominal rates 
of freight on wheat, corn and oats by railroad from 
Buffalo to New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia 
during the year 1883: 

Wheat, Corn, Oats, 
_ 18 ° 3 - bu. bu. bu. 

January 1 to April 30 9 S]4 5 

May 1 to November 30 7% 7)4 4J4 

December 1 to December 31 9 8$, 5 



Arrivals and Clearances for the Season of 
Navigation. 

ARRIVALS AND CLEARANCES. 
The following is a statement of the arrivals and 
departures of vessels in the coastwise trade; arri- 
vals and departures of American vessels in the for- 
eign trade; also the arrivals and departures of for- 
eign vessels in the foreign trade; together with 
their tonnage, in the district of Bnffalo Creek, for 
the seasons of 188.2 and 1883: 



COASTWISE ARRIVALS. 
-1882.- 



-1883. - 



No. Tonnage. No Tonnage. 

January 

February 

March 1 iio 

April 172 183,775 9 4,i08 

•May 370 269,255 310 258,634 

J une 372 274,086 375 274,702 

July 400 288,320 317 244,585 

August 112 316,183 427 287,233 

September 389 294,909 494 330,421 

October 45a 328,0*8 422 311,840 

November 276 219,810 249 203,129 

December 81 36,982 20 21,655 

Total 2,892 2,152,314 2,059 1,936,307 

COASTWISE CLEARANCES. 

, 1882. , , 1883. , 

No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage. 

January 

February ... 

March 1 H6 

April 200 140,005 IK 16.210 

May 383 271,760 302 281,400 

June 889 183,034 407 :;o, .-_':, I 

July 393 230,893 311 239,034 

August 823 317,693 433 800,882 

September.. .. 402 303,798 ms 319,291 

October 439 317,655 399 285,652 

November 253 206,130 250 198,482 

December 6 5,907 1 978 

Total 2,789 1,977,191 2,679 1,949,289 



AMERICAN-FOREIGN ARRIVALS. 



No. 



January 3 

February 

March 10 

April 7 

May 10 

June 14 

July... 14 

August 24 

September 13 

October 23 

November 26 

December i 

Total 145 



1882. , 


, 1883 


, 


Tonnage. 


No. Tonnage. 


576 






1^741 






1,006 


3 


395 


1,280 


26 


3,051 


1,238 


35 


3.609 


1,811 


33 


4.065 


2,748 


33 


3,379 


1,569 


10 


95 


3,899 


20 


2,398 


3,431 


13 


515 


18 


4 


1,023 



19,317 



18,590 



AMERICAN-FOREIGN CLEARANCES 



1882. , , 1883. 

No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage. 



January 

February 

March 9 1,728 

April 8 2,081 

May 8 1,026 

June 16 1,241 

July 13 2,065 

August 24 2,791 

September 14 2,827 

October 19 2,460 

November 21 4,207 

December 

Total 132 20,426 

FOREIGN ARRIVALS. 

, 1882. , , 

No. Tonnage. 

January 2 62 

February ... 

March 4 124 

April 27 3.276 

May 64 13,141 

June. 85 14,465 

July 95 18,050 

August 97 16,880 

September 106 16,224 

October 117 20,942 

November 90 17,419 

December 5 346 

Total 702 120,883 

FOREIGN CLEARANCES 

, 1882. , , 

No. Tonnage. 

January 1 31 

February 

March 4 121 

April 26 3,946 

May 63 12,131 

June 81 13,966 

July 89 16,790 

August 93 15,082 

September 105 10,791 

October 105 17,163 

November 101 18,390 

iieceiiiber 5 449 

Total 673 114,872 



525 
2,889 
3.721 
4 772 
IJ559 
2,111 
1,8.14 

589 



181 20,990 



-1883. — 
Tonnaa 



8 
02 
101 

103 
120 
102 
121 
71 
30 



565 

619 
:ii; 
393 
984 
871 
572 
322 

•.".•ti 



718 110,569 



Nn. 



-1883. 

Tonnage. 



11 

00 
96 
109 

122 

108 
123 
79 
26 



952 
8,918 
14,047 
17,97d 
20,611 
16,654 
18,982 
12 801 

1,231 



731 115,15 



Lake Arrivals and Departures. 

The following is the summary statement of the 
arrivals and departures of vessels, with their tou- 
u.ige. in the district of Buffalo creek, for the season 
of l v s:;; also a comparative statement showing the 
aggregate figures lor thirty-two years: 

ARRIVALS. 

No. vessels. Tonnage. 

Vessels in coastwise trade en- 
tered 2,050 1,936,307 

American vessels entered from 
foreign ports 177 18,590 



17 



No. vgssgIs 
Foreign vessels entered from 
foreign ports 718 

Total in 1883 3,554 

Total in 18*2 3,739 

Decrease in 1883 185 

DEPARTURES. 

Vessels in coastwise trade 

cleared 2,679 

American vessels cleared 'l32 

Foreign vessels cleared 734 

Total in 1883 3545 

Total in 1882 3',594 



Tonnage. 

110.569 

2,065,466 
2,292,514 

227,048 



1,949,280 
20,900 
115,127 

2.065,316 
2,112,489 



Decrease in 1883 . 



4!) 



27,173 



COMPARATIVE TABLE FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS. 



9,441 

8,298 
8,942 
9,211 
8,128 
7,581 
8,838 
10,521 
11,51 



1852 

1853 

1854 

1855 

1856 

1857 

1858 

1859 

1860 

1861 13,'866 

1862 10,390 

1863 15,376 

1864 14,105 

1865 13 740 

1866 13,082 

1867 12,826 

1868 11,812 

1869 10,ooi 

1870 10,625 

1871 10,894 

1872 10303 



No. vessels. Tonnage. 



1873 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1877. 
1S78. 
1879. 

1880 101308 

1881 6,745 

1882 7,333 

1883 7,099 



9,959 
7,447 
6,278 
4,624 
6,785 
8,743 
8,447 



3,092,247 

3,252,878 

3,990,284 

3,360,233 

3,018,589 

3,226,806 

3,329,246 

5,952,626 

4,710,175 

5,963,896 

6,689,191 

6,757,903 

6,891,348 

7,032,593 

6,954,859 

5,806,960 

4,254,339 

4,007,496 

4,157,793 

4,832,641 

4,678,058 

4,886,733 

3,641,099 

3,259,839 

2,757,986 

3,539,219 

4,668,688 No report 

4,442,717 " 

5,995,747 

4,536,223 

4,405,003 

4,150,782 



Men- 
127,491 
128,112 
120,838 
111,575 
112,051 
132,183 
86,887 
118,119 
120.497 
144,173 
166,133 
157,415 
148,161 
145,074 
144,622 
129,300 
116,320 
103,673 
105,798 
115,299 
106,291 
107,785 
82,862 
71,392 
55,459 
73,893 



Opening and Closing of Navigation. 

Statement showing the dates at which navigation 
opened and closed for ten years: 

AT BUFFALO. 

No. days 

Lake Canal Canal Canal 

1 o? ar - opened. opened. closed, open. 

1 °<4..' April 18 May 5 Dec. 5 215 

18'5 May 12 May 18 Nov. 30 197 

;°™ May 4 May 4 Dec. 1 209 

]°i.l April 17 May 8 Dec. 7 213 

-878 M'ch 16 April 15 Dec. 7 237 

:°'9 April 24 May 8 Dec. 6 212 

}880 M'ch 19 April 20 Nov. 20* 215 

;881 May 1 May 17 Dec. 6 204 

}°°i M'ch 26 April 11 Dec. 7t 241 

18 83-. April 28 May 7 Dec. 1 206 

*The severe weather closed navigation twelve 
days before the official time. An immense amount 
of property was "frozen in." 

• 1 ,tH ff J?i al date - Twenty-seven boats were frozen 
in at different points. 

THE WELLAND CANAL. 

J^.f- Opened. Closed. 

i'u'i April 9 Dec. 10 

}2ifi May 3 Dec. 14 

18,0 April 17 Dec. 15 



Year. Opened. 

1877 April 17 

1878 May 7 

1879 May 5 

1880 ' April 30 

1881 May 2 

1882 April 20 

1883 April 5 



Closed. 
Dec. 5 
Dec. 14 
Dec. 5 
Nov. 30 
Nov. 19 
Dec. 5 
Dec. 12 



THE STRAITS OF MACKINAW 
Opened on the dates following: 

1874 April29 1879 April 22 

18(5 April 30 1880 April 4 

1876 April 28 1881 May 3 

1877 April 18 1882 M'ch 28 

1878 M'ch 15 1883 April 28 



Vessels in Winter Quarters. 

Propellers, 31 ; steambarges, 14 ; barges, 15 • 
schooners, 17 ; tugs. 10 ; total, 96. Corresponding- 
period 1882, 127 ; in 1881, 88. 



Tonnage of Vessels. 
The tonnage of the port of Buffalo, N. Y., for the 
fiscai year ending June 30, 1883, is shown by the fol- 
lowing statement: 

SAIL VESSELS. 

Schooners 

Total gross tonnage 



58 
29,869.40 



STEAM VESSELS. 



Iron steamers. 

Iron tugs 

Total 

Total gross tonnage . 

Tugs 

Yacnts 



Iron yachts . . 



43 Canal Boats . . . 
12 Propellers 



Total 



6,119,96 

9 

54 

118 



Total gross tonnage , 71,671.70 

BARGES. 

Barges 09 

Total gross tonnage 8 581.29 

CANAL BOATS. 

Canal boats ^ 

Total gross tonnage ;'.'' 2 105.27 

Grand total, 1883 — 228 vessels; tonnage. US 347 62 
Grand total, 1882... 225 vessels; tonnage. llo]l80'50 
Grand total, 1881... 217 vessels; tonnage 100 815 43 
Grand total, 1880... 212 vessels; tonnage 99'543'o9 
Grand total, 1879... 211 vessels; tonnage. 97'734 46 



Vessels Built and Enrolled. 

The following is the list of new vessels built here 
and elsewhere, but documented in the district of 
Buffalo creek during the year 1883: 

Name. Gross Tonnage. 

Tug Edward Fiske 43 g5 

May French 18.71 

Shaugraun 45.00 

J.L.Williams 51.19 

Lorenzo Diniick _ 42.34 

John Howell 14 05 

Steam yacht The Genesee 17.94 

George Stauber 42.70 

Little Frank 11.72 

Laura Hickler 19.97 

Barge DanRodgers 324/25 

Total new tonnage, 1883 631 72 

1882 '. 10,16li44 

1881 11,899.51 

1880... 6,153,30 

1879 5,800.00 

1878 3,685.12 

1877 1,844.02 

1876 87.173 

1875 4,417.06 



18 



Vessels Built but Not Enrolled. 

The following is the list of vessels built but not 
enrolled in the district of Buffalo creek during the 
year 1883: 

Yacht Wanderer 4.88 

Trio 16.82 

Steam canal boat Bradford 133.08 

Ashford 132.51 

Walston 132.46 

" " Ridgway 135.4T 

DuBois 136.15 

Tug Giant 10.66 

" John Navagh... . . 19.72 

Wm. L. Proctor 117.01 

Barge Comrade 910.20 

Total tonnage 1,753 96 



Transfers of Vessels. 

The followiug statement shows the number and 
description of vessels changing owners by entire 
transfer at Buffalo dm ing the year 1883: 

Steamer 1 Yachts 5 

Propellers 6 Tugs 7 

Barges 3 Steam canal boats 1 

Schooners 3 — 

Total transfers, 1883. . .26 Total transfers, 1880. . .14 

1882... 31 " " 1879... 24 

1881... 48 
Decrease, 1883 under 1882 5 



Customs' Receipts. 

The following statement shows the receipts at the 
Buffalo Custom-house during each month and the 
totals for the past three years: 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

January $64,418 16 $67,137 42 $69,921 38 

February 56,224 32 98,175 50 77,446 05 

March 69,842 71 125,940 12 103,528 97 

April 05,372 79 99,483 16 81,823 7 J 

May 65,162 27 76,586 24 62,465 64 

June 56,124 66 52,009 18 60,731 31 

July 35,513 87 62,124 73 43.168 35 

August 61,130 08 69,394 18 47,318 86 

September.... 61,39128 70,929 64 60,053 08 

October 78,326 32 119,718 22 72,602 50 

November.... 128,073 51 121,350 42 79,256 93 

December*... 71.336 65 75,396 39 96,145 83 

Total $812,916 92 1,038,245 20 $851,402 62 

*Estimated for 1883. 



Comparative Receipts and Shipments and 
Cereal Crop movements at Lake Ports. 
COMPARATIVE RECEIPTS AT SIX WESTERN 
LAKE PORTS— Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleve- 
land, Toledo and Duluth, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31: 
1883. 1882. 1881. 

Flour, bbls 8,854,062 8,092,139 9,143,463 

Wheat, bu 60,899,160 56,917,357 43,270,112 

Corn, bu 81,437,045 57,403,308 92,123,215 



1883. 1882. 1881. 

Oats,bu 43,624,830 32,844,952 30,433,478 

Barley, bu 17,«46,538 12,725,097 9,814.285 

Rye, bu 6,548,259 2,638,797 3,325,636 



Total grain, bu.. 213,355,841 162,539,511 178,966,726 
Flour to wheat, bu. 42,270,310 40,460,695 45,717,315 



Grand total, bu.. 255,626,151 203,000,206 224,684,011 
COMPARATIVE SHIPMENTS FROM SIX WEST- 
ERN LAKE PORTS— Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, 
Cleveland, Toledo and Duluth, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 
31: 

1883. 1882. 1881. 

Flour, bbls 7,923,351 8.919,266 9,694,182 

Wheat, bu 41,592,959 44,317,676 43,824,739 

Corn, bu 76,771,366 54,002,870 85,810,176 

Oats, bu 34,041,131 87,320,684 26,356,266 

Barley, bu 10,865,503 6,173,887 5.858,530 

Rye, bu 4,869,883 3.368,012 2,347,926 

Totalgrain, bu 168,140,902 136.083,129 164,197,537 
Flour to wheat, bu 39,616,755 41,596,330 48,470,910 



Grand total, bu.. 207,757,657 180,679,459 212,668,447 



Exports of Breadstuffs from New York. 

The following statement shows the foreign ex- 
ports of Hour and grain from New York for ten 
years : 

Flour, Wheat, Corn, 

bbls. bu. bu. 

1874 2,177,608 34,791,249 19,000,995 

1875 1,954,100 26,192,700 12,938,790 

1876 1.887,309 24,135,233 10,677,082 

1877 1,476,771 20,712,412 26,181,276 

1878 2,557,709 55,062.873 26,580 870 

1879 3,399,793 62.239,141 33,170,838 

1880 4,215,415 61,908,029 49,875,490 

1SS1 4,507,052 41,788,707 31,614,480 

1882 4,300,000 39.000,000 8,500,000 

1883* 5,250, 00 21 ,000,000 25,000,000 

Oats, Birley, Rye, 

bu. bu. bu. 

1874 12-2,528 3,560 641,660 

1875 138.800 1 ,500 206,900 

1876 620,536 87,883 1,336.423 

1H77 250,063 2,302,022 2,051.5(13 

1878 5,690,782 1,618,667 2,998,063 

1879 502,224 156,902 3,558,2 10 

1880 427,959 '.':,l,ss j , 2,181,183 

1881 434,337 7,442 1.074,103 

1882. ... 200,000 7.000 2,000,000 

1883* 200,000 12,500 4,500,000 

Reducing flour to grain, bushels, the totals com- 
pare as follows: 

1874 05,448,033 1879 117,226,318 

1875 19,249,100 1880 135,725,009 

1876 £2,293,655 1881 97,454,389 

1877 58,871,221 1882 71,207,000 

1878 104,740,191 1883* 76,962,500 

*Partly estimated. 



(I A N A L GO M M E R C 



IMPORTS. 
Statement of property left at Buffalo, on the Erie 
canal, or which was left between that place and 
the Collector's office next in order on the canal; 
showing the quantity, tons and average va'ue of 
each article during the year 1883, going to the 
Western States, Canada and New York : 



The Forest. 



Articles. Ooan- 

Product of Wood— tity. 
Boards and scantling. 

feet 195,863 

Timber, cubic feet... 352,292 

Staves, lbs .10,00,1 

Wood, cord 454 

Total of the forest.. 



Reduced 

to tons of, 
2.000 lbs 

620 

r.iM 
15 
6,316 



Value 
of each 
article. 

$9,917 

1 1,092 

300 

i,sir, 



13,990 $26,125 



19 



Agriculture. 

Reduced Vahie 

Articles. Quail- to tons of of each 

Product of Animals— tity. 2,000 lbs. article. 

Hides, lbs 5 .',475 26 $4,723 

Vegetable Food- 
Wheat, bu 252,200 7,560 277,420 

Barley, bu 4,792 115 3,450 

Oats, bu 108 2 37 

Peas and beans, bu . . . 470 14 705 

Flour, bbls 115 11 690 

Apples, bbls 607 46 1,518 

Dried fruits, lbs 4,741,088 2,371 474.109 

Total vegetable food .... 10,125 $757,929 
Manufa ctures. 

Furniture, lbs 14,000 7 $ 1 ,400 

Bar and pig lead, lbs. 56,000 28 2,800 

Pig iron, lbs ... .' 57,050,900 28,525 570,509 

Bl->om and bar iron, 

lbs 10,880,265 5,440 217,605 

Castings and iron 

ware, lbs 443,852 222 35,508 

Domestic salt, lbs.... 59,665,034 29,833 149,163 

Foreign salt, lbs 38,581,614 19,291 192,908 

Total manufactures .... 83,346 $1,169,893 
Merchandise. 

Coffee, lbs ... 1,424.287 712 $256,372 

Sugar, lbs 8,006.018 4,004 640,481 

Molasses, lbs 11,553,590 5,777 462,144 

Nails, spikes, horse- 
shoes, lbs 420,000 210 12,600 

Iron and steel, lbs.... 70.613,881 35,307 1,765,367 

Railroad iron, lbs 59,661,537 29,831 1,193,230 

Flint, enamel, crock- 
ery, glassware, lbs.. 966,177 483 77,295 
All other merchan- 
dise, lbs 224,684,878 112,342 11,234,244 

Total merchandise. .... 188,665 $15,641,717 
Other Articles. 

Stone, lime, clay, lbs. 107,130,965 53,565 $535,655 
Gypsum, phosphates, 

lbs 19,295,064 9,648 385,901 

Anthracite coal, lbs.. 327,084.054 163,542 817,710 

Iron ore, lbs 1,204,732 602 4,016 

Petroleum oil, crude 

and refined, bbls ... 14 3 63 

Sundries, lbs 60,667,317 30,334 1 ,203,346 

Total other articles. .... 257,694 $2,946,691 

Grand totals .... 553.846 $20,547,078 

EXPORTS. 

Statement of property first cleared at the Collect- 
or's office at Buffalo on the - rie canal during the 
year 1883, showing the quantity, tolls and average 
value of each article, and also the whole amount 
of tolls received at that office on each article of 
property during the same period coming from 
the Western Stales, Canada and New York: 

The Forest. 

Articles. Quan- 

Product of Wood— tity. 
Boards and scantling, 

feet 70,399,062 

Shingles, M 11.177 

Timber, cubic feet .... 4.000 

Staves, lbs 55,149,900 



Total of the forest . . 

Agriculture. 



Reduced Value 
to tons of of each 
2,000 lbs. article. 

87,999 $1,407,981 

1,677 39,119 

80 16,000 

27.575 551,489 

117.331 $2,014,589 



Product of Animals — 
Lard, tallow and lard 
oil, lbs 



10,000 



Reduced Value 

Articles. Quan- to tons of of each 

Vegetable Food— tity. 2,000 lbs. article. 

Flour, bbls 5,349 524 $32,094 

Dried fruits, lbs 8,000 4 100 

Wheat, bu 17,824 272 534,728 19,606,699 

Rye, bu 2,82i;790 79.010 1,834,163 

Corn.bu 18,472,804 517,216 9,236,002 

Barley, bu 283,982 6,816 204,467 

Barley malt, bu 257,991 4,382 226,856 

Oats, bu 2,949,375 47,190 1,002,787 

Bran and shipstuffs, 

lbs 2,901,721 1,451 232,137 

Total vegetable food .... 1 ,191 ,321 $32,375,305 

All other Agricultural Products- 
Clover and grass seed, 

lbs 254,020 127 $12,701 

Flax seed, lbs 29,611,885 14,806 888,357 

Total all other agri- 
cultural products . .... 14,933 $901,058 
Manufactures. 

Pig iron, lbs 4,037,188 2,019 $40,372 

Castings and iron 

ware, lbs 70,00 > 35 4,600 

Oilmealandcake,lbs. 4,415,994 2,208 132,480 

Bar and pig lead, lbs. 624.493 312 31,225 

Total manufactures. .... 4,574 $209,677 
Merchandise. 
Sundry merchandise, 

lbs , 337,675 169 $16,884 

Other Art id es. 
Stone, lime and clay, 

lbs , 6,226,000 3,113 $31,130 

Phosphates, lbs 400,000 230 9,200 

Bituminous coal, lbs.. 47,089,349 23,545 58,861 
Petroleum oil, crude 

and refined, bbls... 704 133 6,108 

Sundries, lbs 12,131,114 0,067 242,622 

Total other articles. .... 33,088 $347,982 

Grand totals .... 1,361,421 $35,866,394 



Imports and Exports Compared. 

IMPORTS. 

1881. 1882. 

Lumber, feet.... 2,357,066 1,323,339 

Timber, cub. f t . . ... 29,260 

Shingles, M 162 462 

Wood, cords 2,877 1 ,372 

Staves and head- 
ing, bbls .... 110,000 

Hides, lbs 

Cheese, lbs 83,487 7,108 

Flour, bbls 6,906 3,069 

Wheat, bu 3,317 18,533 

Barley, bu 19,220 24,809 

Corn, bu 4,000 

Barley malt, bu . . 411 — 

Oats, bu . . 520 

Bran, etc., lbs . . . 20,940 
Beans and peas, 

bu 9,840 1,157 

Potatoes, bu 75 

Hemp, lbs 1,281,699 230,217 

Apples, bbls — 232 

Dried fruits, lbs. 9,351,998 4,051,588 4. 

Dom. spirits, gal. 469,475 2,500 
Lard, tallow and 

lard oil,' lbs.... 8,227 
Live cattle, sheep 

and hogs, lbs.. 20,000 40,0.10 

Dom.woolens.lbs 8,304,240 504,404 

Dom. cottons, lbs 11,221,245 540,352 

Furniture, lbs... 21.000 83,830 

Pig iron, lbs 39,994,369 27,779,235 57 

Castings, etc.,lbs 770,500 358,195 
Bloom and bar 

iron, lbs 5,505,578 33,186,702 10 

Bar& pig lead, lbs — — 



1883. 

495,863 

352,292 



30,000 
52.475 

'iis 

252,200 
4,792 



108 
470 



607 
741,088 



14,000 
050,900 
443.852 

,880,265 
56,000 



20 



Rock and super- 
phosphate, lbs. 
Domestic salt,lbs 
Foreign salt, lbs. 

Sugar, lbs 

Molasses, lbs 

Coffee, lbs 

Nail$& spikes, lbs 
Iron and steel, lbs 
Railroad iron, lbs 
Crockery, etc, lbs 
All other mdse, 

Lbs 

Stone, lime, etc., 

lbs 

Anthracite coal, 

lbs 

Petroleum oil, re- 
fined and crude, 

lbs 

Sundries, lbs. . . . 
Iron ore, lbs 



1881. 

17.827,848 

78,294,619 

17,898,058 

35,873,046 

9,612,546 

5,308,633 

3,505,481 

346.078,189 

158,658,431 

11,545,405 

156,464,316 

151,794,026 

363,584,690 



1883. 

10,158,510 

63,035,690 

15,895,133 

13,565,765 

5,733,437 

3,695,770 

1,063,330 

94,969,174 

73,173,733 

670,210 



1883. 

19,395,064 
59,665,034 
38,581,614 
8,006,018 
11,553,590 
1.421.387 

420,000 
70,613,881 
59,661,537 

966,177 



180,619,632 324,684,878 



214,523,714 
466,007,826 



19,431,465 65,476,386 



Total ton3 of ar 

tides carried.. 691,879 645,790 
Total value of 

articles carried $11,048 980 $24,397,952 

EXPORTS. 

1881. 1882. 

Lumber, ft 74,865,668 87,661,510 

Timber, cub. ft. . 

Staves and head- 
ing, lbs 61,652,031 84,335,390 

Shingles, M 12,353 31,811 

Lard, tallow and 

lard oil, lbs. . . . 6,606,405 3,347,903 

Wool, lbs .... 31,096 

Ashes,leach'd,bu 15,666 38,667 

Flour, bbls 4,465 7,567 

Wheat, bu 13,886,763 19,506,566 

Rye, bu 3,827 684,313 

Corn, bu 16,368,436 8,619,045 

Barley, bu 73,357 

Barley malt, bu. 345,812 *' 67,871 

Oats, bu 1,546,934 565,377 

Peas & beans, bn 3,533 

Bran, etc., lbs... 1,571,460 2,604,570 

Cornmeal, bbls.. 4,370 2,383 

] >ried fruit, lbs. . .... 

Clover and grass 

seed, lbs 918,634 454,911 

Flaxseed, lbs.... 90,896,725 96,788,955 

Hemp, lbs ... 12,611 

Dom.spirits.gals. 56,280 10,447 
Oil meal and cake 

lbs 4,222,000 6,284,748 

Pit,' iron, lbs .... 929,600 

Bar and pigjlead. 

lbs 

Castings, etc.,lbs .... 538,370 

Dom. salt, lbs... 37.000 

Sundry mdse.lbs 9.133,358 725,437 
Stone, lime, clay, 

lbs .... 260,000 

Bituminous coal, 

lbs 58,414,132 50,552,069 

Iron ore, lbs .... 200,000 

Petroleum oil, ra- 
fined and crude, 

bbls 2,514 1,199 

Sundries, lbs.... .... 6,060,463 

Rock and super- 
phosphate, lbs. 302,000 448.0(H) 
Iron and steel, lbs 1,176,065 



107,130,965 
327.081,054 



14 

60,667,317 

1,204,732 



553,816 
),547,078 



1883. 
70,399,062 
4,000 

55,149,900 
11,177 

10,000 



5,349 
17.842,273 

2,821,790 

18,472,804 

283,983 

257,991 

2,949,375 

2,901*731 
8,000 

254,020 

29,611,885 



4,415,994 

4,037,188 

634,493 
70,000 

337,675 

6,226,000 

47,089,319 



704 
12,131,114 



460,000 



Total tons of ar- 
ticles carried. . 1,121,240 1,139,054 1,361,421 

Total value of 
articles carried $31,782,568 $35,222,439 $35,866,394 

Total boats cl'd. 6,294 6.613 6,081 

Total miles b'ts 
cleared 1,946,078 



FLOUR AND GRAIN RECAPITULATION. 
The exports of flour and graia, compared for 
three years, are shown thus: 

1881. 1882. 1883. 

Canal opened May 17. April 11. May 7. 

Flour, bbls 4,465 7,567 5,349 

Wheat, bu 12,886,762 19,506.566 17,834,273 

Corn, bu 16,368,436 8,619,045 18,472,804 

Oats, bu 1,546,034 565,377 2,949,375 

Barley, bu .... 72,357 283,982 

Rye, bu 3,837 684,213 2,821,790 

Total, bu 30,805,949 29,447,557 42,352,223 

Flour to wh't,bu 23,325 37,835 26,745 



Grand total, bu 30,829,374 29,485,39* 42,378,968 
Note. — In 1874 there were shipped 104,754 bushels 
of barley malt, 153,853 bushels in 1875, 215,238 bush- 
els in 1876, 205. 9S6 bushels in 1877. 220,723 bushels in 
1878, 295,083 bushels in 1879, 163,179 bushels in 1880, 
345,813 bushels in 1881, 267,871 bushels in 1882 and 
257,991 bushels in 1883. Of peas and beans 208 bush- 
els in 1374, 3,844 bushels in 1875, 836 bushels in 1877, 
27,215 bushels in 1878, 22,441 bushels in 1879, none in 
1880, 3,533 bushels in 1881, none in 1882 and 1883. 



Kitstwunl and Westward. Movement on the 
Erie Canal. 

The following statement shows the amount of 

freight by tons moved on the Erie Canal eastward 
and westward for ten years: 

SHIPMENTS OF EASTWARD MOVING FREIGHT FROM 
BUFFALO. 

Products of Products of Veg'ble 

the forest, animals, food, 

Years. tons. tons. tons. 

1874 216,893 38 3,164,392 

1875 151,953 39 1,007,559 

18.6 124,379 23 783,123 

1877 183,019 10,633 1,820,249 

1878 234,433 2,686 1 ,635,082 

1879 212,121 364 1,562,208 

1880 157,783 9.863 3,061.9110 

1881 157,601 3.302 877,502 

1882 192,102 1,685 863,400 

1883 117,331 5 1,191,321 

Other ag'l Mauufac- Mer- 

products, tures, chandise, 

Years. tons. tons. tons. 

1874 204 846 -530 

187B 7 11,602 337 

1876 29 878 335 

1877 3,516 3 364 292 

1S7S 532 1,406 472 

1879 11,174 1,581 643 

1880 24,288 1,602 5,049 

1881 45,907 2,850 1,717 

1882 48,627 8,918 951 

1883 14,933 1.571 169 

other articles, Total Total 

tons. tons. value. 

1874 65,269 1,448,172 $46,244,875 

1875 38,051 1,319,53s 40,608.163 

1876 33,213 941,174 24,411,551 

1877 38,049 1,459.122 38,229,716 

1878 75,758 1,946,602 43,466,806 

187!) 41,952 1,830,843 48,142.030 

1880 36,447 3 286,992 59,539.048 

1881 29,858 1,131,210 84,782,568 

1882 38,970 1,139,651 35,222.439 

1883 33,088 1,861,421 35,800..7)4 

RECEIPTS OK WESTWARD MOVING FRETGHT AT BUF- 
FALO. 

Products of Products of Veg'ble 

the forest, animals, food, 

Years. tons. tons. ions. 

1871 2,011 37 15,174 

1885 1,529 266 7,521 

1876 1,507 88 3,453 

1877 1,356 230 5,881 



21 



Products of 
the forest, 
Years. tons. 

1878 1,874 

187!) 5,210 

1880 9.843 

1881.... 12;007 

1882 6,746 

18-3 13,990 

Other agr'l 
products, 
Years. tons. 

1874 3 

1875 4 

1876 

187? 442 

1878 304 

1879 305 

1880 755 

1881 641 

1882 115 

1883 

Other articles, 
Years. tons. 

1871 373,903 

187-i 403,465 

1876 242,815 

1877 287,760 

1878 212,038 

1879 198,140 

1880 178,566 

1881 ; . 276,330 

18S2 378,103 

1883 257,694 



Products of Veg'ble 



animals, 


food, 


tons. 


tons. 


72 


7,211 


51 


3,321 


28 


6,253 


46 


6,404 


4 


3.870 


26 


10,125 


Manufac- 


Mer- 


tures, 


chandise, 


tons. 


tons. 


99,305 


36,145 


111,531 


30,921 


60,547 


4,627 


74,426 


'24,685 


204,893 


106,060 


130,708 


161,708 


120,70D 


241,469 


82,913 


313,538 


70,706 


186,246 


83,346 


188.605 


Total 


Total 


tons 


value. 


526.311 


$8,646,610 


555,237 


9 193,785 


313.036 


5,045,911 


395,o80 


12,310,455 


432,472 


22,474,227 


499,453 


43,551,185 


557,601 


33,692,510 


691.871 


41,048,930 


645,790 


24,297,952 


553,846 


20,547,078 



Canal Clearances- 

The following statement shows the number of 
boats cleared from the opening to the close of nav- 
igation for a series of years 



1883 6,081 

1882 6,613 

1881 6,291 

1880 10.623 

1879 8,709 



1878 9,027 

1877 6,908 

1876 4,850 

1875 6,349 

1874 7,628 



Canal Freight? from Buffalo to New York. 

The following table shows the ruling rates of 
freight to New York from Buffalo on the dates spe- 
cified in 1883: 

Pine 

1883. Wheat, Corn, Oats, lumber, Staves, 

bu. bu. bu. M ft. p. ton. 

May 7 6 5J^ 4 .... .... 

May 12 5 4)4 3>4 $2 30 $175 

May 19 4\4 4 3y 4 2 30 1 75 

May 26 4^ 4 3 2 30 1 50 

June 2 4 : M 454 3^ 2 60 1 50 

June 9 4)4 m 3 2 60 1 50 

June 16 4 3^ 2£i 2 60 150 

June 23 4 3J^ 2*S@2% 2 65 150 

June 30 4J4 4 3 2 65 156 

July 7 4)4 4 3 2 65 1 63 

July 14 4 3% 3 2 65 1 56 

July 2i S]4 3!4 2% 2 65 156 

July 28 3% 3% 2}/ 2 2 40 163 

Aug. 4 3% 3>fe Wx 2 40 1 63 

Aug. 11 4 3-fc 2% 2 30 1 50 

Aug. 18 4% ^ %% 2 45 150 

Aug. 25 6 5!^ 4 2 75 1 75 

Sept. 1 5J4 5 3J4 2 90 1 88 

Sept. 8 6M5 6 4 3 00 2 00 

Sept. 15 m W4 3% 3 00 2 25 

Sept. 22... 6}4 6 4 3 25 2 30 

Sept. 29 6% 5^ 4J4 3 50 2 30 

Oct. 6 6^6 6 4}^ 3 50 2 30 

Oct. 13 5)4 5 3% 3 50 2 00 

Oct. 20 5 4]4 3% 3 10 175 

Oct. 27 4-M 4>4 3% 3 00 163 

Nov. 3 4% 4)4 3H 3 00 163 

Nov. 10 4}A 4 3% 3 00 163 

Nov. 17 4% ©5 4J4 ®4J^ 314 3 00 163 

Nov, 21 5 4>£ 314 3 00 163 

Nov. 24 *5% .. . 

*Steam. 



AVERAGE CANAL FREIGHTS. 

The following statement shows the average rates 
of canal freights on wheat and corn between Buf- 
falo and New York during each month ;n the past 
ten 3 r ears ; the highest rate on wheat in each year 
and the average rate on wheat in each year: 

May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. 

cts. cts. cts. cts. cts. cts. cts. 

i„~, < Wheat.. 11.8 11.3 9.5 9.0 9.5 9.5 9.7 

1B,4 )Corn. .. 10.8 10.3 8.5 8.0 8.5 8.5 8.7 

Highest rate of wheat, 1874, 14c; average for the 

season, 10c. 



187G- 



1S7 - I Wheat.. 

1875 ) Corn.... 

Highest rate 

Wheat.. 

, Corn 

Highest rate 

cw j Wheat.. 

1877 1 Corn.... 

Highest rate 

iu-q ( Wheat.. 

18 ' 8 '|Corn ... 

Highest rate 

iq-q S Wheat.. 

18,J iCorn.... 

Highest rate 

1880) Wheat.. 

Highest rate 

icai I Wheat.. 

181 1Corn.... 

Highest rate 



ao I Wheat.. 

' } Corn 

Highest rate 

; Wheat.. 

j Corn . . . 

Highest rate 

Note— Tolls 

inclusive. 



18S2 



1883' 



7.4 6.9 7.5 8.1 7.0 8 2 10.5 

6.6 6.3 6.9 7.4 6.5 7.4 9.1 
wheat 1875, lie; average, 7.9c. 

6.7 6.2 5.9 5 8 6.2 8.3 7.6 

5.8 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.6 7.5 5 5 
wheat, 1876, 10c; average, 6 6c. 

5.8 5.0 5.4 7.0 7.7 10.9 10.0 
5.0 4.9 4.7 6.4 6.7 6.2 8.7 

wheat, 1877, 12c; average, 7.4c. 

5 8 4.7 4.3 5.2 8.0 8.0 5.8 

5 2 4.1 i.8 4.6 7.1 7.0 5 2 
wheat, 1878, 8.5c; average, 6c. 

4 7 4.1 5.2 6.5 8.1 8.0 10.2 

4.2 3.6 4.7 5.9 7.4 7.9 8.8 
wheat, 1879, 12c; average, 6.8c. 

6.9 6.9 6.0 5.9 5.9 6.7 8.8 

5.5 6.4 5.4 5.4 5.3 6.0 7.5 
wheat, 1880, 9c; average, 6.5c. 

5.3 4.7 4.3 4.0 4.8 5.0 5.0 

4.8 4.2 3,8 3.5 4.3 4.5 4.6 
wheat, 1881, 7c; average, 4.7c. 

4.9 4.3 4.4 5.4 5.8 6.8 6.1 
4.5 3.9 4.0 4.9 5.3 6.2 5.5 

wheat, 1882, 8c; average, 5.4c. 

5.0 4.3 3.9 4.6 6.3 5.5 4.6 

4.5 3.9 3.6 4.3 5.9 5.0 4.1 

wheat, 1883, 6.5c; average, 4.9c. 

I ncluded from 1874 to 1882, both years 



Canal Freights from New York to Buffalo. 

The following statement shows the ruling rates of 
up-f reigbt f rom New York to Buffalo on general 
merchandise, per gross \ on, on the dates specified: 

1883 Rates. 1883. Rates. 

May 7 65@70 Aug. 18 75@85 

May 12 85@90 Aug. 25 75@85 

May 19 85@90 Sept. 1 85 

May 26 1 00@70 Sept. 8 85 

June 2 60®65 Sept. 15 75 

June 9 60@65 Sept. 22 75 

June 16 6u@65 Sept. 29 70@75 

June 23 60@65 Oct. 6 75@80 

June 30 60@65 Oct. 13 75 

July 7 65@75 Oct. 20 75 

July 14 75 Oct. 27 75 

July 21 65 Nov. 3 75 

July 28 65 Nov. 10 75 

Aug 4 60 Nov. 17 75 

Aug! 11 75@85 Nov. 24 

Propeller lines contracted f rejght from New York 
by HJrie canal to Buffalo, thence to Chicago by lake 
at 30c for first and second-class, 20c for third class 

and 18c for fourth-class per 100 lbs on general 
merchandise . 



Receipts at Tidewater by Canal of Flour, 
Grain, Ktc. 

The following comparative table shows the quan- 
tity of the principal articles of cereal produce left at 
tide- water from the commencement to the close of 
navigation in the years indicated: 



22 



1881. 1882. 1883. 

Canal opened .. May 17. April 11. May 7. 

Flour, bbls 11,000 1,900 600 

Wheat, bu 13,701,900 19,000,000 16,000,000 

Corn, bu 18,472,000 7,500,000 16,000,000 

Barley, bu 2,982,900 3,210,000 1,650,000 

Rye, bu 557,000 1,468,000 3,114,000 

Oats, bu 2,070,000 2,700,000 2,975,000 

Malt, bu 702,700 750,000 665,00J 

Total grain, bu. 38,487,100 34,628,000 40,404,000 
Flour to wheat, bu 55,000 9,500 3,C00 

Grand total, bu. 38,542,500 34,637,500 40,407,000 
The receipts at tide-water by canal of new crop bar- 
ley in 1893 were 1,500,000 bush, against 3,150,000 bush- 
els in 1882, 2,931,700 bushels in 1881, 4,035,4CO bush- 
els in 1880, 3,114,000 bushels in 1879, 2,988,000 bushels 
in 1878, 5,126,500 bushels in 1877, 3,632,100 bushels in 
1876, 3,833,600 bushels in 1875, 3,354,300 bushels in 
1874, 2,130,800 bushels in 1873 and 4,147,100 bushels in 
1872. 



The receipts for ten years compare as follows 
(malt not included): 

Grain and flour, 
Year. Flour, bbls. reduced to bu. 



1874 165,200 

1875 113,600 



1876. 
1877. 
1878 
1879. 
1880 
1881. 
1882. 
1883. 



37,100 
29,500 
14,400 

8,400 
21,200 
11,1)00 

1,900 
600 



48,687,200 
37,674,200 
30,845,300 
47.475.500 
62,510,600 
56,597,600 
71,759,800 
37,839,400 
33,887,500 
39,742,000 



Note— It is estimated that there were on the 
canals when navigation closed on the 20th day of 
November, 1880, 1,180,000 bushels of wheat, 3,700,000 
busheis of corn, 39,000 bushels of oats, 399,000, bush- 
els of barley and 42,000 bushels of rye. 



LIVE STOCK TRADE. 



We present below very valuable tables showing the 
receipts and shipments of Live Stock by the dif- 
ferent routes during the year 1883, with compara- 
tive tables of the total receipts, showing the growth 
of trade for 27 years, and a carefully prepared 
table of the range of prices in each week during 
the year: 

RECEIPTS. 

PER LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 

Cattle Hogs Sheep Horses 

Month. curs. cars. cars. cars. 

January 2,426 1,758 491 60 

February 1,832 1,087 418 91 

March 1,486 1,017 382 133 

April 1,743 931 429 105 

May 1,325 982 392 107 

June 1,711 944 729 93 

July 2,090 972 648 60 

August 2,016 1,131 442 53 

September 2,068 1,487 363 67 

October 1,976 2,007 362 41 

November 1,676 1,874 325 41 

December 1,882 1,833 439 44 

Total, 1883.-22,231 16,023 5,420 895 

1883. .25,950 14,264 5,057 783 

L881. .30,987 14,308 3,622 830 

1880 .38,023 15,164 3,403 1,001 

INTO.. 30,606 12,947 3,090 1,097 

1878.. 31,391 13,309 2,983 597 

1877.-24,485 7,711 2,144 610 

1876.. 29,771 7,999 2,421 566 

1875.. 23.935 7,300 2,131 915 

1874. .22,147 11,049 2,036 1,103 

L873. .22,401 14,078 2,362 1,687 

1872.-20,710 12,01!) 1,888 1,188 

1871. .17,080 7,252 1,655 722 

1870. .15,631 6,354 2,217 425 

PER NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY. 

At Central Stock Yards. 

January 42 100 51 

February 310 204 56 2 

March 238 198 41 2 

April 289 120 94 1 

May 207 76 9 5 

June 115 93 7 4 

July 197 113 10 2 

Auirust 280 88 22 3 

September 313 105 48 4 

October 580 227 59 



Cattle Hogs 

Month. cars. cars. 

November 210 233 

December 142 288 



Sheep 
cars. 

38 

64 



Total, 1883.. 2,923 1,845 499 

At National Stock Yards. 

For the Year... 2,225 387 170 

At D., L. & W. Stock Yards. 

November 141 57 

December 240 64 

Total, 1883.. 381 121 

PER GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. 

January 96 72 125 

February 79 34 131 

March 178 17 105 

April 193 10 57 

May 135 20 15 

June 31 15 10 

July 90 Hi 19 

August 84 14 54 

September 98 61 116 

October 162 112 207 

November 179 59 184 

December 182 56 165 

Total, 1883.. 1,507 486 1,188 

1882.. 1,023 513 1,287 

1881.. 2,603 190 695 

1880.. 1,711 20s 824 

1879.. 202 252 sir, 

1878.. 1.15i) 166 773 

is;; 27'S 67 227 

1876.. 1,290 60 031 

1875.. 2,ii01 76 879 

1874.. 2,533 321 919 

PER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 

January 2 .. 1 

February 2 l 

March l .. 2 

April 4 

May 

June 1 

July 

August 5 

September 

October 12 9 

November 

December 



Horses 

cars. 

1 



23 



Cattle Hogs Sheep Horses 

cars. cars. cars. cars. 

Total, 1883.. 16 4 13 1 

1882.. 2,864 635 319 53 

1881.. 4,062 849 444 64 

1880.. 2,918 2,312 424 73 

1879.. 228 1,321 500 67 

1878.. 3,028 142 655 70 

1877.. 2,409 485 496 67 

1876.. 1,565 1,023 714 51 

1875.. 1,192 1,065 633 98 

1874.. 860 164 530 26 

PER CANADA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 

Month. 

January 482 157 '71 2 

February 768 108 134 14 

March 59,2 71 119 19 

April 520 '83 64 11 

May 1,228 134 22 8 

June 897 76 13 8 

July 279 109 4 1 

August 360 144 25 4 

September 304 138 48 1 

October 303 285 113 2 

November 151 181 85 2 

December 306 197 93 1 



73 



Total, 1883. 


6,190 


1,743 


791 


1882. 


4,221 


1,607 


603 


1881. 


5,002 


1,835 


583 


1880. 


3,533 


1,851 


490 


1879. 


232 


2,141 


592 


1878. 


3,123 


2,955 


7,020 


1877. 


4,174 


1,006 


649 


1876. 


3,597 


919 


598 


1875. 


3,477 


837 


562 


1874. 


4,141 


898 


431 



PER BUFFALO & SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD. 

For the Year... 42 83 29 

Total 1883.... 42 83 29 

1882.... 35 23 17 7 

1881.... 61 24 11 8 

1880.... 59 50 13 

SHIPMENTS. 

PER NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER RAILWAY. 

January 1,627 1,350 525 51 

February 2,136 881 471 86 

March 2,114 858 451 143 

April 2,128 72 i 397 95 

May 2,154 599 245 86 

June 1,899 582 550 78 

July 1,649 570 536 53 

August 1,690 653 385 35 

Sept ember 1,849 927 368 59 

October 2,019 1,446 394 37 

November 1,575 1,521 398 42 

December 1,815 1,484 513 43 

Total, 1883.. 22,655 11.596 5,233 808 

1882.. 25,698 10,473 4,969 814 

1881.. 33,925 10,056 3,661 755 

1880..35,618 11,572 3,521 1,092 

1879. .31,482 10,825 3,571 1,027 

1878.. 26.763 10,924 3,120 634 

1877. .23,287 5,381 2,570 667 

1876. .26,325 5,571 2,320 366 

1875. .24475 3,737 2,524 803 

1874..24.288 9,207 2,234 1,207 

1873. .17,825 '9,254 2,067 1,531 

1872,. 18,046 6,642 2,117 354 

1871..14,3"63 4,110 1,205 536 

1870.. 13,022 2,678 1,399 343 

PER NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILWAY. 

January 1,669 251 178 9 

February 719 199 89 23 

March 862 238 189 27 

April 763 266 166 16 

May 549 290 106 18 

June 496 285 43 20 

July 558 305 35 14 

August 465 370 84 10 





Cattle 


Hogs 


Sheep 


Horses 


Month. 


cars. 


cars. 


cars. 


cars. 


September . . 


... 423 


506 


144 


13 




... 466 


594 


220 


8 


November. . 


... 296 


422 


149 


7 


December . . . 


... 297 


213 


233 


6 



Total, 1883.. 7,563 3,939 1,636 171 

1882.. 9,243 3,081 1,343 141 

1881.. 7,089 2,477 993 98 

1880.. 8,950 4,430 1,177 130 

1879.. 4,403 3,133 1,089 233 

1878.. 8,634 3,646 1,143 170 

1877.. 8,385 2,296 949 104 

1876.. 7,783 2,563 986 95 

1875.. 4,252 2,366 1,058 106 

1874.. 2,913 1,693 1,146 82 

1873.. 4,050 3,399 1,408 171 

1872.. 2,716 3,666 658 144 

1871.. 6,945 2,666 702 151 

1870.. 7,826 2,671 1,146 113 

PER DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILWAY. 

January 162 5 5 2 

Febru/ary 85 2 2 2 

March 85 2 6 1 

April 144 1 3 4 

May 121 ..4 3 

June 217 .. 5 3 

July 314 .. 7 

August 285 1 7 2 

September 255 2 7 

October 280 9 11 

November 225 81 10 1 

December 344 92 3 2 



Total, 1883.... 2,517 



195 



20 



RECAPITULATION. 

GRAND TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR 1883. 



Cattle 


Hogs 


Sheep 


Horses 


Routes. cars. 


cars. 


cars. 


cars. 




16,023 


5,420 


895 


Canada South'n 6,190 


1,743 


791 


73 


N. Y., C. & S. L. 5,529 


2,353 


6G9 


28 


Grand Trunk. . . 1,507 


486 


1,188 


67 


Other routes. .. 58 


87 
20,692 


42 
8,110 


1 


Total, 1883..35,515 


1,064 


1882.. 37,115 


17,092 


7,300 


1,094 


1881.-38,653 


16,357 


5,562 


1,022 


1880.-46,258 


19,581 


5,166 


1,293 


1879.-37,268 


16,661 


5,098 


1,311 


1878.-38,625 


17,947 


5,161 


850 


1877.. 31,348 


10,598 


3,818 


766 


1876.. 36,223 


10,001 


4,309 


784 


1875..30,203 


9,281 


4,205 


1,137 


1874.-29,682 


12,441 


3,919 


1,371 


GRAND TOTAL SHIPMENTS FOR 1883. 




N.Y.C.&H.R. 22,655 


11,596 


5,233 


SOS 


N. Y. L. E.&W. 7,563 


3,939 


1,636 


171 


D. L. & W 2,517 


195 


47 


20 


Total, 1883.. 32, 735 


15,730 


6,916 


999 


1882.. 35,024 


13,560 


6,319 


956 


1881.. 41,024 


12,533 


4,654 


853 


1881.. 44,568 


16,002 


4,698 


1,105 


1879.. 35,855 


13,958 


4,660 


910 



GROWTH OF THE TRADE. 
The following table shows the growth of the trade 
from 1857 to 1883 inclusive: 
Cattle 
head. 

1857 108,203 

1858 134,073 

1859 103,337 

1860 156,972 

1861 141,921 

1862 129,433 

1863 154,789 

1864 135,797 

1865 212,839 

1866 275,091 

1867 257,872 



Hogs 


Sheep Horses 


head. 


head. head. 


117,168 


307,549 


92,194 


345,731 


73,619 


189,579 


85,770 


145,354 


101,679 


238.952 


103,671 


524,976 


92,128 


474.849 


301,629 


155,959 


300,014 


207,208 


552,831 


341,560 


697,440 


239,943 



24 



Routes 
1868. ... 


Cattle 

bead. 

265,105 


Hogs 

head. 

170,578 

794,272 

739,519 

886,014 

1,145,109 

1,662,500 

1,431,800 

1,067,300 

1,150,210 

1,128,770 

2,063,765 

1,916,015 

2,251,815 

2,096,325 

1,965,350 

2.379,580 


Sheep 

head. 

385,815 

381,450 

561,447 

551,131 

606,748 

733,400 

783,800 

841,000 

871,928 

763,600 

1,032,225 

1.019.600 

1,033,200 

1,113,350 

1,460,000 

1,622,000 


Horses 
head 

7,773 


1869 

1870. . . 


347,871 

388,057 


12,038 
7,896 


1871 

1S72. ... 
1873 


. . . . 384,294 

379.086 

109 738 


13,319 
20,786 

28,380 
21,936 
18,187 
12,542 
12,557 
13,602 
20.976 


1874 

1875 

1876 

1877 

1878 

1879 


504,594 

513,530 

. ... 615,790 

569,915 

657,809 

633.556 


1880 


786,386 


20,768 


1881.. .. 

1882 . . 
1883.. . 


738,900 

630,955 

603,755 


17,376 
17,504 
17,040 



STOCK SLAUGHTERED. 
The estimated amount of stock slaughtered in 
this city for the last ten years is as follows: 

Cattle 

head. 

187 4 35,073 

1875 19,956 

1876 25,651 

1877 20,158 

1878 53,025 

1879 23,511 

1880 28,000 

1881 35,845 

1882 35,547 

1883 47,260 

RANGE OF PRICES. 
The following exhibit shows the range of prices 
per cwt. in each week on cattle, hogs, sheep and 
lambs: 

Cattle. 



Hogs 


Sheep 


head. 


head. 


173,30il 


96,800 


159,500 


118,200 


208.560 


103,678. 


171,000 


47,500 


387,210 


175,265 


310,845 


87,600 


406,295 


88,600 


443,100 


98,600 


406,180 


196,200 


570,630 


238,800 







Common 


Good to 


Stockers & 






to fair. 


best. 


feeders. 


January 


3.. 


..$3 50a5 40 $5 50a6 50 


$3 40a5 25 




10. 


. . 3 25a5 30 


5 4:a6 50 


3 40a5 25 




17. 


. . 3 5ua5 00 


5 lOaO 25 


3 30a5 00 




24 


.. 3 65a5 20 


5 30a6 40 


3 40a4 75 




31. 


.. 3 70a5 00 


5 10a6 35 


3 30a4 70 


February 


7. 


. . 3 7Ca5 25 


5 30a6 40 


3 30a4 75 




14. 


. 3 65a5 25 


5 30a6 25 


3 25a4 75 




21. 


.. 4 00a5 50 


5 U0a6 50 


3 60a4 75 




28. 


. . 4 00a5 50 


5 60a6 50 


3 50a4 80 


March 


7 


.. 4 00a5 50 


5 60a6 60 


3 50a4 85 




14. 


. . 3 90a5 40 


5 50a6 35 


3 50a5 00 




21 


.. 4 00a5 60 


5 65a6 75 


3 65a5 50 




28. 


. . 1 00a5 65 


5 70a7 50 


3 75a5 75 


A.pril 


4. 


. . 4 25a5 75 


5 80a7 00 


3 75a5 50 




11. 


.. 4 00a5 65 


5 70a7 00 


3 50a5 75 




18. 


. . 4 15a5 60 


5 70a7 10 


3 60a5 70 




25. 


. . 4 15a5 75 


5 80a8 0C 


3 75a5 75 


May 


2.. 


. . 4 20a5 75 


5 80a7 50 


3 65a5 75 




9 


. . 4 25a5 75 


5 80a7 00 


3 75a5 75 




16. 


. . 4 25a5 80 


5 90a0 90 


3 65a5 70 




23. 


. . 4 00a5 80 


:, 90a0 so 


3 50a5 75 




30. 


. . 4 00a5 70 


:» BOatf 85 


3 7'5a5 75 


June 


6. 


. 4 00a5 60 


5 70a6 60 


3 75a5 50 








5 30a0 25 


3 50a5 50 




20. 


. . 3 75a5 00 


5 15a0 15 


3 50a5 50 




27 


. . 3 7'5a5 00 


5 20a6 00 


3 50a5 50 


July 


3 . 


. . :; B5a5 --'o 


5 25a6 00 


3 75a5 40 




11 


. . 3 85a5 20 


5 25 a6 00 


3 65a5 40 




18. 


. 3 50a5 00 


5 10a6 20 


3 75a5 40 




25 . 


. . 3 50a5 70 


5 20a6 10 


3 65a5 40 


August 


1 


. . 3 50a5 10 


5 20a6 25 


3 76a5 40 




s 


.. 3 25a4 90 


5 OOaO 20 


3 50a5 00 




15. 


. . 3 50a5 00 


5 20a6 15 


3 50a5 00 




22 


. . 3 10a5 00 


5 10a5 90 


3 25a4 7 




29. 


.. 3 00a5 15 


5 25a0 30 


3 25a4 50 


September 


5.. 


. . 3 00a5 15 


5 25a6 15 


3 25a4 50 




12. 


. 3 00a5 20 


5 25a6 30 


3 25a4 50 




19 


. . 3 00a4 90 


5 00a6 20 


3 40a 1 75 




26 


. 3 00a4 90 


5 OOaO 20 


3 40a4 75 


October 


3 . 


. . 3 00a4 90 


5 00a6 35 


3 40a4 75 




10. 


. . 3 00a5 00 


5 lOaO 50 


3 40a4 75 



17. . . . 3 00a4 90 5 00a6 25 3 40a4 75 

24. . . . 3 00a4 90 5 00a6 30 3 40a4 75 

31 . 2 75a4 60 4 75a6 15 3 30a4 50 

November 7.... 2 75a4 90 5 00a6 15 3 40a4 50 

14... 2 90a5 25 5 30a6 00 3 30a4 50 

21.... 2 75a5 00 5 10a6 50 3 25a4 50 

28.... 3 00a5 00 5 20a6 0) 3 50a4 05 

December 5 3 25a5 25 5 30a6 15 3 50a4 65 

12. . . . 3 40a5 40 5 50a6 75 3 50a4 75 

19. . . . 3 40a5 50 5 60a8 00 3 5 a4 75 

26.... 3 25a5 40 5 50a6 25 3 50a4 70 

Sheep and Lambs. 

Western Canada 

sheep lambs. 

January 3 $4 OOaO 00 $5 50a6 13 

10 3 75a6 15 6 50a0 88 

17 1 25a6 00 6 OOaO 60 

24 4 00a6 Oil 6 OOaO 50 

31 4 OOaO 00 6 00a6 50 

February 7 4 25 aO 13 6 OOaO 50 

14 3 50a6 10 No sales 

21 4 5Ua6 00 

28 3 75a6 25 

March 7 3 75a6 in 

14 4 00a6 90 

21 4 25a7 15 

28... 5 00a7 50 

April 4 4 50a7 13 

11 5 00a7 40 

18 5 00a7 13 

25 4 75a6 90 " 

May 2 4 50a7 00 

9 4 30a7 00 

16 4 40a6 25 

23 4 50a(i 40 " 

30 4 75a0 25 

June 6 4 60a0 25 " 

13 4 00a5 50 

20 4 50a0 00 

27 3 30a0 00 

July o 3 25a5 70 5 90a6 00 

11 3 25a5 25 No sales 

18 3 25a5 25 

25 3 25a5 80 

August 1 3 50a6 00 6 25a6 50 

8 3 50a5 75 6 00a6 25 

15 3 25a5 40 OOaO 50 

22 3 00a5 50 5 65ao 75 

29 3 25a5 75 5 85aG 25 

September 5 3 25a5 75 6 OOaO 50 

12 3 25a5 50 5 75a«i 00 

19 3 00a5 13 5 40a5 75 

26 3 25a4 90 5 00a5 50 

October 3 3 25a5 00 5 15a5 50 

10 3 40a5 00 5 50a5 ',:> 

17 3 50a4 90 5 50a5 75 

24 3 25a4 90 5 00a5 38 

31 3 50a4 75 5 00a5 50 

November 7 3 70a5 00 5 00a5 30 

15 3 80a5 50 5 00a5 70 

21 3 50a5 10 5 00a5 45 

28 3 40a5 00 5 00a5 25 

December 5 3 50a5 10 5 25a5 50 

12 3 65a4 90 5 50a5 70 

19 3 50a6 35 6 lOaO 65 

26 3 50a4 90 5 75a0 25 

Hogs. 

1 1 ighest and Medium 

Lowest Price. Yorsers. and heavy. 

January $6 10a6 75 $5 85a7 25 

February 6 50a7 50 6 25a7 75 

March 7 10a7 75 6 40a8 25 

April 7 35a7 90 6 00a8 15 

May 7 00a7 80 6 25a8 05 

June 6 25a7 20 5 50a7 80 

July 5 OOaO 60 4 50a6 50 

August ... 5 35a6 90 4 50a5 90 

September 4 75a5 60 4 25a5 65 

October 4 30a5 55 4 25a5 50 

November 4 40a4 90 4 15a5 25 

December 4 7'5a5 85 4 25a6 75 



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